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Title: The Mentor's Spirit : Life Lessons on Leadership and the Art of Encouragement by Marsha Sinetar ISBN: 0-312-20423-X Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 12 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Blew me away! Perfect for the road
Comment: I wasn't expecting much from this tape. The book hadn't impressed me very much and I was thinking, "same old..."
However, as I listened I realized that Sinetar really has uncovered new ways to view mentoring. She distinguishes mentoring spirit from mentors in a unique, compelling way. Think of light flowing through a pane of glass. We care about the light -- not the glass. Similarly, the mentor is only a transmitter. What we want is the spirit transmitted by the mentor.
From this perspective, any person, group or even physical object can be a mentor - anything that embodies a spirit that offers us insight, understanding or support. John Muir, for instance, chose nature as a mentor to escape a horrendous family situation. And she never met the artist Ben Shahn, but she learned from his artwork. I can relate: I learned from Cynthia Cooper's book She's Got Game (which I also reviewed) -- and I've never held a basketball.
Most important, our own silence helps us grow and any meditation, quiet time or sabbatical can enrich us the way a mentor might.
There are many other gems on this tape and I plan to listen again...and again. Perhaps most interesting is the glimpse we get into Sinetar's own life and business. We learn that she regularly takes sabbaticals lasting several months -- and once a week she won't work at all. She no longer attends corporate dinners in the evening, although it's normally considered part of the consultant's job.
Sinetar recognizes that people have to be careful as they operate within an organization, and I think she underestimates the dfificulty of carving out space in a structured hierarchy. However, I have met folks who swim with ease in the corporate sea, and those will probably resonate even more, as Sinetar gracefully combines spirituality, personal growth and business systems.
I was reminded of Carolyn Myss: Despite widely divergent styles and content, both authors create and integrate.
Sinretar is far more accessible than Myss and her spiritual challenge is more of a gentle hill than an icy mountain. But don't expect Sinetar to offer a cake walk. One of the best parts of the book compares Olympic level goals with more mundane, amateur achievements, and she cites Neil Postman's wonderful book about our entertainment culture.
We want everything to be like television: no effort, no preparation and pleasantly entertaining, she says. As a former college professor, I have to agree: I've heard a college senior say, "I like this text because it has a lot of pictures."
Heading for a vacation trip? Pack this one in the car and prepare to come back refreshed and, quite possibly, changed.
Rating: 4
Summary: A different definition of mentoring
Comment: Mentoring is now a new concept that becomes increasingly popular in companies, government agencies, schools and volunteering organizations. Sietar unfolds a way to use our inborn "spiritual intelligence" to see the world and everything in it as a potential mentor - not only are humans beings our mentors, but books, articles, songs, nature and silence as well. Mentors are the artists of encouragement.
A must have book for spiritual individuals.
By Thei Zervaki,
author of Globalize, Localize, Translate
Rating: 3
Summary: Mentors Must Be Choosy
Comment: I have benefitted greatly from much of Sinetar's work, but this book takes too glib an approach to the mentoring of those working for corporations and organizations, some of which, no matter how excellent their business technique, are responsible for great harm to our society. Sinetar needs to note this and make some judgments about authentic business practice for the common good and that which is predatory, no matter how "enlightened." The mentoring process itself should be rigorously self-critical in a way which opens the door for individuals to confront their own role in the empowerment of businesses and organizations, for good or for ill. In this way the social transformation now needed may be accelerated rather than hindered by businesses, organizations, and those who work for them. I'm not hearing that in this book.
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Title: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring by Marsha Sinetar ISBN: 0312141416 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Ordinary People As Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Self-Discovery by Marsha Sinetar ISBN: 0809127733 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood by Marsha Sinetar ISBN: 0440501601 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Way Without Words: A Guide for Spiritually Emerging Adults by Marsha Sinetar ISBN: 0809133032 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Elegant Choices, Healing Choices by Marsha Sinetar ISBN: 0809130106 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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