However, although mentoring mattered for career success, it represented just a part of a constellation of career resources that are embedded within individuals and their relationships.
Mentors matter, particularly if women are fortunate enough to have multiple mentors with different strengths.
Mentors matter for a variety of reasons.
The prevailing wisdom goes like this: mentors matter.
Mentors Matter Most One of the first things one does in recovery is ask someone to be a sponsor -- a mentor to show them the ropes and who is willing to be on call whenever temptation or trouble threatens.
Mentors Matter: According to Todd, one of the biggest reasons he has been able to achieve huge dreams is that he has surrounded himself with people along the way who have given him their time and who have selflessly exposed him to their networks so that he could advance in his career.
Half an hour before dinner, Edwards walked casually into the hall, accompanied by his political mentor in matters Iowan, Rob Tully, a former head of the state Democratic Party, and a woman from his office in Washington.
This sort of thing is not new to him, for he has directed similar conferences in honor of H.D., the imagist poet, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, his own guiding spirit and mentor in matters of poetry, and a soon-to-be conference for T.S. Eliot.
Lesson 1: Mentor quality matters.
On Saturdays during the school year, Minds Matter mentors work with students to open their minds to possibilities, and to challenge their assumptions about who they can become in this world.
