Product Description

With this book, you will see that sharing your life with others is the most rewarding gift you can give--and the most satisfying gift you can receive.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38159 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
David A. Stoddard has been involved in personal mentoring for more than twenty years and founded Leader's Legacy, Inc., in 2000 to fill the need for true leadership in the marketplace. A graduate of San Diego State University, he built a successful career in sales and marketing in the health care industry before becoming involved in nonprofit work. He and his wife, Anne, live in Atlanta, Georgia, with their two sons and daughter.

Robert J. Tamasy is vice president of communications for Leaders Legacy, Inc., and lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife, Sally, and their three daughters. Following ten years as a newspaper editor, Bob has worked for more than twenty years with nonprofit organizations, has cowritten and edited nine books, and has written more than one hundred freelance articles.

Customer Reviews

Very applicable principles
As a business owner, I have applied the principles in this book to all of the business that I have owned and found them invaluable. Other business development books always gave me a list of "do's" and "don'ts" which would work for a short while and then we would move to the next "flavor of the month." Finally, I learned that real organizational change comes from the inside out. Mentoring enabled me to do that and my business reflected that change. My profits started climbing as well as the retention rate of my employees. It all started with the principles in the Heart of Mentoring. If you are looking for a checklist of things to do, don't buy this book. If you are looking to make an organizational change for the better-buy it.

Not for Business Mentoring
As a professional coach,I found the book redundant and less applicable to business. The principles appear written towards life coaching and as a result may be an acceptable reference for those for mentoring teenagers and others having difficulty getting it together. For those considering mentoring in a business enviroment,there are much better books that deal with establishing a meaningful mentor/mentee relationship.

Disappointed
I was looking for a book to describe a structure, do's and don'ts, and general guidance for developing a business oriented mentoring relationship/program. I found the book lacked any specificity to the business world as opposed to general living. Worse, I found that by reading the first sentence of each paragraph, I got the idea, rather than spending time going into each repetitive example. On the chance I was too negative about the text, I loaned it to an associate who is heavily involved with mentoring and he also found the book to be redundant with rather obvious recommendations. Purchase another text if you are looking for a guide to mentoring in the business world.