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Demystifying Mentoring

Harvard Business Review

"There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. Even the promise of future help, if and when it's needed, can be enough to convince a mentor to give up his time and energy.

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How to Know If Joining a Startup Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over. If, on the other hand, you’re older and have financial and personal commitments, you need to develop a process so that others in your life can help you make the decision.”