My Favorite Business and Leadership Mentors

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I like to read … why? To be entertained, to learn new things, and to stimulate thinking. My favorite business and leadership mentors and authors?

I have 5 … including Seth Godin, Tom Peters, Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and Peter Drucker. They are my selections for silent mentors … they mentor through their writings and presentations.

Selecting the best mentors should be your priority. I have read many of their books. You could not lose with any of these authors.

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Yes … they all do stimulate a lot of thinking and learning, but they both have a great knack for entertaining while they teach and silently mentor. They also share these other common attributes that makes them such successful mentors for me:

Great storytellers

… In their writing and presentation styles

Love of reading

… In many diverse fields

Showed passion in everything they do

… They both wear their enthusiasm and passion day in and day out

Ability to connect the dots

… You can see their logic by the analogies that they draw for their readers, from many viewpoints

Effective curators

… When they used others work as they often do, they always add considerable value

Great learners

… I have followed their writing and speaking for almost two decades now … I have watched them continually stretch and grow.

Never stop initiative

… Always trying something new