ASK A GROUP of military officers and noncommissioned officers if they have considered leaving the profession of arms because of the way a supervisor treated them, and, depending on their time in service, anywhere from a third to all of them will raise their hands to say yes. However, what we should recognize about such an informal polling process is that we are only addressing the survivors. We have no ...
Mentorship is a hot topic in academia, business, and the military. Recently, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Robert Gross said it was evident from the Educational Resources Information Center's annual list of publications that virtually nobody was writing about mentors and mentoring in the 1970s, as only 33 articles appeared for that entire decade. He adds, however, Then the topic took off: 230 pieces in 1980-84; 597 in 1985-89; ...