- ISBN13: 9780060888220
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Product Description
Everyone who wants a fulfilling career needs a mentor — someone who has seen it all before, someone who can share hard-won experiences and teach valuable lessons. In this expanded and enhanced version of his best-selling book, Monday Morning Leadership, David Cottrell packs all of the wisdom of his wide-ranging business experience into this inspirational story. Cottrell introduces us to Jeff, a successful corporate manager who has hit a major wall. Jeff has been… More >>
Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder
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#1 by C. Carson on April 17, 2010 - 1:25 am
The how to book is an easy read and we use it for a webinar class we are presenting at work. Highly recommended for leadership development.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Kel on April 17, 2010 - 3:36 am
I loved this book and recommend it to anybody that is looking to develop their management skills or looking to improve their lives. Great book and an easy read.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Marcus Chacos on April 17, 2010 - 5:27 am
I loved this book.
It is a ‘parable’ (a story with meaning and a message akin to the One Minute Manager style) about mentoring others to achieving their best. It offers key lessons to share with others in an insightful and highly useable way… in essence, it creates a template for mentoring others by providing the key topics to discuss and scenarios that challenges often present in by way of example.
Very readable, very useful… highly recommended!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Jo on April 17, 2010 - 8:08 am
This book makes you think. It mirrored our work environment and gave us the incentive to make changes that needed to be made.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Peter H. Smith on April 17, 2010 - 9:48 am
This book is short and very approachable, written in a unique conversational style with well-defined chapters. While aimed at leaders it is of value for all team members, and is structured so that you could use it to spur team conversation: “Let’s read chapters and discuss them each week…”
The tools that Cottrell introduces are simple enough to memorize but are robust enough to use in real life. As another reviewer pointed out, the time management discussion and tool is powerful even though it is only a few pages long.
I find Dale Carnegie’s books to be life changing, but believe this book will appeal to a wider audience today because it uses more modern language and examples. Cottrell’s messages are compatible with those found in the Seven Habits and the Purpose Driven Life, but he leaves it up to the reader to connect motivation and ethics to their system of beliefs. As a result this book can be discussed with people who might feel uncomfortable with management books that tie their values and motivations directly to Christianity.
In summary, this book is priceless as a tool for bringing teammates together, especially in a secular work setting. It is short and approachable, and it is neutral from the leader/individual contributor perspective and the religious perspective.
Rating: 5 / 5