Mentor or Sponsor? The Relationship That Will Supercharge Your Career
A mentor advises you in private; a sponsor advocates for you in the rooms where promotion decisions are made—and the research is unambiguous that sponsors, not mentors, accelerate careers. Understanding the difference between these two relationships, and deliberately cultivating the one you actually need, may be the single highest-leverage career decision you make this year. This distinction is not semantic. Economists and organisational researchers have… Read More »Mentor or Sponsor? The Relationship That Will Supercharge Your Career
