Strategic Relationships at Work: Creating Your Circle of Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers for Success in Business and Life. This item is unavailable.Strategic Relationships at Work: Creating Your Circle of Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers for Success in Business and Life

The business leader's guide to becoming a workplace mentor

Business leaders need mentors, too. In fact, the most successful CEOs seek mentors from various points of their lives―-bosses, colleagues, spouses, friends, and even people who work for them.

Strategic Relationships at Work explains why mentoring works, why leaders need multiple mentors, and how to identify potential mentors and proactively develop mutually beneficial relationships with them. It provides actionable advice that applies across the many stages of a career.

Wendy M. Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Management at Babson College. She also serves as the Coordinator for the Mentoring Programs through the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL).
Kathy E. Kram is the Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management.

Wendy C. M. Murphy, PhD, is Associate Professor of Management at Babson College. She also serves as the Coordinator for the Mentoring Programs through the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL). Her research appears in a variety of journals.

Kathy E. Kram, PhD, is the Richard C. Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management. She is also the author of the book Mentoring at Work and the coeditor of The Handbook of Mentoring at Work, and she has published in a wide range of journals.