If not for the football team, which was paying his way, and the persistent mentoring of a new coach who was hired before the start of his senior year, he thinks he might never have amounted to anything.
The mentor of the new bright young thing of Scottish rugby was pretty impressed too.
Networks have sprung up nationwide to accommodate education, mentoring and shepherding of new entrepreneurs to the Promised Land of success in the Innovation Economy.
"It seemed to a number of people that he didn't have as much energy in recent months as he had earlier," said Dr. David Hamburg, a longtime trustee and mentor of the new chief executive, Dr. Davis.
Matsunaga Teitoku, a conventional 17th-century poet of tanka and renga who revered the old traditions, became almost in spite of himself the mentor of the new movement in comic verse, largely as the result of pressure from his eager disciples.
Macy's West, a division of Federated Department Stores, in San Francisco, recently began a pilot program of assigning mentors to new managers and telling all managers that up to 35percentt of their compensation would be linked to how well they retained the people under them.
