The Mentor Myth
How to Take Control of Your Own Success
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Debby Carreau
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Mentors are over-utilized, undertrained, and often under deliver. From an employer's perspective, assigning a mentor is often a band aid to a larger problem. From an employee's perspective, a lack of formal mentorship is seen as a serious, career-inhibiting problem, the equivalent of sailing a boat without a rudder.
In The Mentor Myth, Debby Carreau represents this dichotomy, explaining that while a mentor's counsel can be invaluable, it is not the silver bullet human resources professionals often purport it to be. The opinions of a mentor are one data point, one piece in the much more complex game of navigating a career. In fact, the increasing overreliance on mentorship can actually be a hindrance to a successful career.
Instead of continually looking outward for career guidance, aspiring professionals must realize that they possess all the tools necessary to take control of their own careers by using their own strengths, capabilities, and visions of success. Through her years of experience consulting, speaking, and writing about career development, Debby has created a comprehensive, easy-to-implement guide for taking ownership of your professional success.
Debby begins by helping the listener create a professional roadmap, including how to build a personal brand, project the right amount of confidence, and manage time. She addresses mentors in the context of networks and sponsors, advising the listener how to incorporate outward influences rather than be defined by them.
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The Quarter-Life Breakthrough
- Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That Matters
- By: Adam Smiley Poswolsky
- Narrated by: Adam Smiley Poswolsky
- Length: 6 hrs
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Have you ever known that you needed to make a change but felt unable to do anything about it? Have you ever felt like you aren't where you are supposed to be and wondered how the people around you managed to find their purpose in life? After realizing that his well-paying, prestigious job was actually making him miserable, Adam "Smiley" Poswolsky started asking these big questions: How do you actually find meaning in the workplace? How do you find work that makes your heart sing?
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attacks conservative ideals and people throughout
- By Mark McClure on 01-13-18
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The Making of a Manager
- What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- By: Julie Zhuo
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Julie Zhuo
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie Zhuo knows the most important lesson of all: Great managers are made, not born. The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide packed with everyday examples and transformative insights you need to be the kind of manager you wish you had.
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Drink the Facebook Kool Aid
- By Amazon_Customer on 03-29-19
By: Julie Zhuo
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Designing Your Life
- How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
- By: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
- Narrated by: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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In this book Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create lives that are both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of whom or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
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From a Retired Person's Point Of View
- By ann lom on 09-25-16
By: Bill Burnett, and others
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Making Ideas Happen
- Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
- By: Scott Belsky
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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How the world's leading innovators push their ideas to fruition, time and time again. Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare. According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be strengthened by anyone willing to build their organizational habits and harness the forces of community.
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Terrible Narrator
- By Charl on 07-12-12
By: Scott Belsky
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How Remarkable Women Lead
- The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life
- By: Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston, Geoffrey Lewis
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about success. It's the new "right stuff" of leadership, raising provocative issues such as whether feminine leadership traits (for women and men) are better suited for our fast-changing, hyper-competitive, and increasingly complex world. In this book, McKinsey & Company consultants Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston establish the links between joy, happiness, and distinctive performance with the groundbreaking model of Centered Leadership.
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Great read for Men & Women
- By yvonne on 08-17-12
By: Joanna Barsh, and others
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Change Maker
- Turn Your Passion for Health and Fitness into a Powerful Purpose and a Wildly Successful Career
- By: John Berardi PhD
- Narrated by: John Berardi PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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If you work as a trainer, nutritionist, functional-medicine doctor, group instructor, rehab specialist, or health coach - or you eventually want to - this step-by-step guide will help you turn your passion for health and fitness into work you find joy in, your clients into raving fans, and your career into something powerful, meaningful, and change-making.
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A must read or listen to!
- By teddy on 12-03-19
By: John Berardi PhD
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The Stay Interview
- A Manager's Guide to Keeping the Best and Brightest
- By: Richard P. Finnegan
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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This practical guide introduces managers to a powerful new engagement and retention tool: the stay interview. Smart companies have begun conducting these periodic reviews in order to discover why their important talent might leave and to solve any problems before they actually quit.
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Great advice.
- By Kevin L. Jeter on 11-02-18
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The High-Speed Company
- Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture
- By: Jason Jennings, Laurence Haughton
- Narrated by: Jason Jennings
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Best-selling author Jason Jennings believes that urgency and speed are keys to the growth of any business. Leaders need to adapt and ignite their workplace cultures to prevent everyone from falling behind. Jennings draws on years of research and 11,000+ in-depth interviews with executives, business owners, and CEOs across the country to uncover how successful leaders build cultures that support constant innovation and growth.
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Incredible testament to the spirit of positive growth and change
- By Alexandra d. on 04-05-23
By: Jason Jennings, and others
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First, Break All the Rules
- What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
- By: Marcus Buckingham, Gallup Press, Jim Harter - foreword
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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They actually have vastly different styles and backgrounds. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They don’t hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They don’t believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They don’t try to help people overcome their weaknesses. And, yes, they even play favorites. In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers.
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Content is dated
- By A. Yoshida on 09-09-19
By: Marcus Buckingham, and others
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Reality Check
- Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
- By: Guy Kawasaki
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion" is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don't make sense"...then it's time for a reality check.
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The Reality of Reality Check
- By Ben on 08-18-09
By: Guy Kawasaki