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1. Empowering & Mentoring Persons of Influence
Young professionals need someone to pattern themselves after – a trusted adviser, a
supporter, a person who can lend experience. Since finding a great mentor is one of the
best ways to enhance your own future, I recommend the following:
1. Let it happen. Don’t ask someone to be your mentor. The best ones are already
taken. They’re buried with requests. So just watch them, take mental notes, follow
their examples. And if someone naturally takes a special interest in you, you’ve
found gold. Cherish it as a life-changing gift.
2. Focus on integrity. Choose someone to pattern yourself after who has
impeccable integrity. Then watch how they manage challenging situations, tough
conversations and setbacks.
3. Pick someone who shares your values. Values are a person's “default
positions” when no one is watching. They’re usually most evident in how we spend
our time, our money and our mental energy. They’re hard to change, so pick
someone who naturally overlaps with you.
4. Find a “teacher.” Look for someone who enjoys sharing knowledge and is
delighted to impart skills, contacts and expertise – not someone who hoards them
as a way to maintain power.
5. Look for a listener. Many people listen only to gather their own thoughts and to
prepare their own reactions. Great mentors tend to be people who listen to
understand. They ask follow-up questions and they make sure they’ve understood
before they react.
6. Seek someone with a network. Networks take a lifetime to build. And if you’ve
found a mentor who has adopted your career interests as his or her own, you’ll be
introduced to a world of contacts it would otherwise take you years to develop. If
you’re given the gift of a warm introduction, don’t blow it – respect the gift. (A
consultant once told a mentee of mine that he was in a position to take over from
me because he now shared my most-valuable investment contacts. If you’re a
mentee, fire this type of consultant!)
7. Find a leader who cares about others. Look for mentors who take joy in the
success of others and want them to get ahead. Self-absorbed people never make
good mentors (beyond observable narrow skills).

2. 8. Choose an optimist. They tend to get more done, have deeper relationships and
be more reliable when the going gets tough. Plus, optimists tend to be
cheerleaders – a key trait in finding the perfect mentor. If you find one of these, it’ll
remind you of your mom – the one person in the world who believed in you during
your darkest moments.
9. Don’t be put off by straight talk. Look for someone who’ll give you feedback. If
you buy the idea that feedback is the breakfast of champions, your best mentors
will be the people who pull you aside and tell you what you need to hear – even
when you don’t want to hear it. (I recall a business coach who pulled me aside
after what I thought had been a brilliant performance, to say simply “You talked
too much.” That was it! And he was right.)
10.Pick respect over love. Lean toward finding someone to follow whom others
admire and respect. Sometimes, these are not the most popular people, but
there’s usually a reason for universal admiration and respect. Figure out what it is
in your potential mentor and pattern yourself after the quality that generates such
respect.
If you don’t find a flesh-and-blood mentor, grab one from history.
From history, I’ve chosen Winston Churchill as my mentor, admiring how fearless he
was in a fearsome time, and how he wasn’t shaken when rejected by colleagues. In the
end, others turned to him when the chips were down. I’ve aspired to a tiny reflection of
this for my own legacy. Needing to overcome reversals in my life, I chose Abraham
Lincoln as a mentor.
If you’re lucky enough to find one, whether in real time or in history, pay it forward by
becoming one for others.
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