MENTORSHIP RETHINK

THE NEW WAY TO GET THE GET-AHEAD ADVICE YOU NEED

SAMANTHA LEACH

ANY YOUNG PROFESSIONAL woman has heard that to succeed (and especially to succeed fast) you need a mentor—someone who will show you the ropes and pave the way for your advancement. But the idea that a woman in the C-suite can teach you everything you need to know about your career and your future is right up there with believing Beyoncé is in the Illuminati. There’s no doubt that female leaders can be helpful (and we need more of them; only 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a female CEO). But virtually every career path today is much more complicated than the old up-the-ladder route; you need a village to navigate it all. “Modern mentorship isn’t about looking to just one person; it’s about cultivating a group of people,”…

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Glamour (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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