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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO.

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When the Invincible Become "Vincible"

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad used to recommend that a company's strategy should be developed by its thirty-year-old rookies instead of its veterans: The new guard will be more vested in the future than the past. And when that happens, we hesitate to venture into new territory, to learn new skills, to develop new relationships. That's why the late C.K.