Lessons in Protégé Power: Accepting Gifts Without Guilt

Lessons in Protégé Power: Accepting Gifts Without Guilt

Welcome to the third post in the Protégé Power series. If you missed the first two, you’ll want to catch up by reading this and this. If you’re caught up, let’s continue! When we left off from our last post, Sage was saying to you, the  protégé. . . SAGE: “Let Dale...
Lessons In Protégé Power:  Calming Your Anxious Heart

Lessons In Protégé Power: Calming Your Anxious Heart

Being a protégé can make you feel anxious.  You are essentially admitting you do not know stuff you need someone to help teach you.  And, if that relationship with a mentor is a new one, it can double the apprehension.  Being vulnerable in front of a stranger is not...
Innovation as the Pursuit of Wholeness

Innovation as the Pursuit of Wholeness

Tom Edison’s well-known clever line about how he discovered the incandescent light, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” tells us a lot about the nature of innovation, especially innovative service. Being correct can be...
Mentoring Traps to Avoid

Mentoring Traps to Avoid

There are countless traps along the path of mentordom. Mentoring can be a power trip for those seeking an admirer, a manifestation of greed for those who must have slaves. Mentoring can be a platform for proselytizing a cause or crusade, a strong tale told to an...