The Elements of Mentoring
W. Brad Johnson and Charles R. Ridley
Palgrave Macmillan, $27.50

Patterned after Strunk and White’s classic The Elements of Style, this new edition concisely summarizes the substantial existing research on the art and science of mentoring. The Elements of Mentoring reduces this wealth of published material on the topic to the 65 most important and pithy truths for supervisors in all fields.

The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships
Lois Zachary and Laurent Parks Daloz
Wiley, $42.00

The Mentor’s Guide explores the critical process of mentoring and presents practical tools for facilitating the experience from beginning to end. Now managers, teachers, and leaders from any career, professional, or educational setting can successfully navigate the learning journey by using the hands-on worksheets and exercises in this unique resource.

HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need
Harvard Business Review Guides (Series), $23.00

Find the right person to help supercharge your career. Whether you’re eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking for you—and you’ll probably be waiting forever. Instead, you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals.

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Routines and Orgies: The Life of Peter Cundill, Financial Genius, Philosopher, Philanthropist and Philanderer
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McGill University Press, $39.95

Peter Cundill (1938–2011) was highly regarded as one of the greatest value investors of his time, but he was also a teacher and mentor who was generous with his knowledge and shared the wealth of his experience with many aspiring investors. He was taken with Aldous Huxley’s words that the “rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies” and spent his life shaking off the quotidian tasks that dulled thought and striving for the excitement of new experiences.