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Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships

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To demonstrate how "power mentoring" works in practice, authors Ellen Ensher and Susan Murphy provide down-to-earth interviews with about 50 pairs of high-powered mentors and their protégés. The conversations offer useful nuggets of insight about office politics, job advancement and successful networking. In addition, unlike many books on the topic, this one provides a useful snapshot of the issues, dramas and special challenges women and minorities in the modern workplace face - and the picture is not always pretty. The book's biggest flaws are its redundancy and use of boardroom clichés. Still, we recommend this personalized, practical book to potential mentor-protégé teams.

We all know how important and valuable a mentor can be, but most of us do not know how to find a good one, and how to make the most of the relationship if we do. "Power Mentoring" taught me so much on the topic, and transformed mentoring from being a nice idea, into something concrete that I too could benefit from. I loved the book, and would recommend it to anyone interested in bettering themselves and their situations.

Power Mentoring is a powerful reminder that even in one of the most individualistic societies on earth, most successful people do not succeed alone. Power Mentoring skillfully combines the latest research on mentoring with fascinating interviews of real American success stories. Interesting and well written, this book is a must for business students or anyone wanting to know one of the best kept secrets to success.

This is a great book. Their points expand upon what I have recommended as Coach: Do Not Play in my Success With People system (and book). I recommend the book, just be prepared to scan at certain times because it seems they could have made many points in fewer words.

Ellen Ensher is Associate Professor at the College of Management at Loyola Marymount, and Susan Murphy Associate Professor at Claremont McKenna College: each has written and consulted both together and independently and here produces a powerful collaboration on mentoring and its lasting benefits to both mentor and prot?g?. Mentoring has a powerful influence on successful people: that's been proven; but traditional models of mentoring haven't kept up with business programs that have different emphasis today than in past. POWER MENTORING covers these changes in approach and offer new strategies for locating and creating 'power mentoring' relationships. Interviews with 50 top leaders and their proteges in technology, politics and media reinforce these concepts and approaches.

I found the authors' blend of stories, research and theory to be very helpful. Made me think about what I could do to be a better mentor to others, as well as actively choosing & working with mentors more effectively myself. Contrary to the popular conceptions about mentoring, it really dramatizes the importance of taking responsibility for yourself as a mentee, not expecting the mentor to find or "take care" of you but rather doing what you can to make the relationship valuable, and enjoyable, to both of you. Anyone who reads this should take away great information that will help make them much more successful on both sides of the mentoring fence.

Excellent read as a second book for mentoring. Need to understand the basics first.

This book has the right tools at the right time. Great tips and techniques for trainers and especially those who are focused on the diversity initiatives in their organizations. The stories are compelling and relevant. There is information and tips that can be applied - right now. I found this book to be inspiring as well as entertaining and it is very helpful in coaching managers in their careers.

This book is a must have! The mentoring relationships described are so vivid and so compelling. This well researched book compels you to find a mentor if you don't already have an established relationship, and to prioritize this on the top of your "to do" list. It is one of the best books on the topic I have ever read. I couldn't put the book down...