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Managers As Mentors is a rapid-fire read and a provocative guide to helping associates grow and adapt in today's tumultuous organizations. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith place increased emphasis on the mentor as a learning catalyst for the protege rather than someone who simply hands down knowledge-crucial for younger workers who prize growth opportunities even more than prior generations and who tend to distrust hierarchy. As with previous editions there is a fictional case study of a mentor-protege relationship running through the book, but this is augmented with six actual case studies of top CEOs from organizations like The Nature Conservancy and Bloomin' Brands, who relate key mentoring experiences in their lives. The new chapters cover topics like the role of mentoring in spurring innovation and mentoring a diverse and dispersed workforce accustomed to interacting and getting information digitally. Also new to this edition is the Mentor's Toolkit, six resources to help in developing the mentor-protege relationship. This hands-on guide takes the mystery out of effective mentoring, teaching leaders to be the kind of confident coaches integral to learning organizations.

Chip R. Bell is senior partner of the Chip Bell Group and former director of management and organization development for NCNB, now Bank of America. He was a highly decorated infantry unit commander in Vietnam with the elite 82nd Airborne Division and is the author or coauthor of several bestselling books, including Wired and Dangerous.

Marshall Goldsmith was recently recognized as the number one leadership thinker in the world at the biannual Thinkers50 ceremony sponsored by Harvard Business Review. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than thirty books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Mojo and What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

Mark Peckham is an actor and director based in Rhode Island. In addition to working with Trinity Rep, Virginia Stage Co., and many Boston-area theaters, he was the voice of Joseph Smith in the award-winning PBS documentary American Prophet with Gregory Peck.