How Mentors Weed Out The Fakes

Mentoring has a simple problem of supply versus demand. Everyone wants Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg or Apple's Tim Cook as his or her mentor, yet these executives only have 24 hours in their day. For mentors, identifying the pretenders versus those that are worth their time and investment is probably the most important element when it comes to the entire concept. This bottleneck problem is particularly a problem among Millennials. These younger workers want guidance. Nearly eight in 10 Millennials...