Leader Mentoring: Find, Inspire, and Cultivate Great Leaders

By Michael Shenkman, PH.D.

Throughout the ages, mentors have played a monumental role in shaping the minds of the leaders who guide history. But is that timeless relationship relevant in a contemporary business environment? What role, if any, does mentoring have in the corporate world, and how is mentoring any different from the common practice of coaching? In his latest work Leader Mentoring: Find, Inspire, and Cultivate Great Leaders (Career Press 2008) author, consultant and thoughtleader Michael Shenkman explores these themes in a book no high-level decision-maker should miss.

Blending wit and wisdom, Michael breaks mentoring down into its basic components, emphasizing how the practice differs from traditional instruction, coaching and other tutoring roles in that it stresses values and ideals, rather than learned skills. “No mentors, no leaders,” he coins, noting that most industries today are ignorant of the importance of mentoring—“most” being the operative word.

Leader Mentoring includes inspiring testimonials of the clients and colleagues Michael has mentored through his consulting firm, Arch of Leadership, formally recognized as one of the top leader mentoring firms in the nation. With scores of previous publishing credits to his name, including his third book The Arch and The Path: The Life of Leading Greatly (Sandia Heights Media), two other books and countless articles, Michael has become a trusted thoughtleader to many major companies and non-profit organizations, showing them how to cultivate new and outstanding leaders. For more than 25 years, he has also shared his insights about leader mentoring as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.

“Great leaders inspire success by shaping their lives in dedication to a vision they offer to others, in the spirit of collaboration and mutual aspiration,” wrote Michael recently. "All the leaders I know, who identify themselves as leaders and have consciously decided to enter this role, have had a mentor who put them on this path."

A must read for any decision-maker, executive or supervisor, Michael’s latest book is boldly unique. At a time when leadership skills are desperately needed, Leader Mentoring offers an alternate route—one that is ancient and therefore tested, and waiting to be harnessed in a business climate as competitive as it has ever been.

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