The Seven Deadly Sins of Army Mentoring
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Authors
Kimball, Raymond A.
Issue Date
2017
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Other
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Leadership Development
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Abstract
I’m going to mentor the <bleep> out of you.
You’ve probably never heard those exact words come out of a mentor’s mouth, but you’ve probably had professional relationships that felt that way. Whether well-intentioned or malicious, we’ve all encountered professional counterparts who thought they knew what was best for us and weren’t going to stop until we saw it their way.
Sir/Ma’am, please describe the universe for me. And if you could keep it to words of two syllables and 140 characters total, that would be great.
In the same vein, you may have had a potential protégé who was seeking more than you were prepared to give. No matter how much they needed some professional insights, something just didn’t click and you had to let the relationship go by the wayside.
Why does this happen? Why do well-intentioned developmental relationships go bad on us?
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Kimball, Raymond A. "The Seven Deadly Sins of Army Mentoring". War Room Online Journal, 2017.
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War Room Online Journal