Mayo615's French Odyssey Week 31 - Choose Your Mentor
Channel: Mayo615
Date: 2019-11-11

Hello! 
…and welcome to the Week 31 Update of Mayo615’s French Odyssey and how to transform Big Ideas into Big Realities. Do you and your company have a mentor? A mentor can be a crucial company asset, but you must carefully interview and evaluate mentors.  You must sense the potential for a positive personal relationship and most importantly, trust.
Don’t choose the first mentor who offers to help. Take your time but do choose a mentor. You are looking for specific character traits, candor, proven experience, and your gut feeling about the person. Ask for references and check them. Smart money is the term often used to describe an investor who brings invaluable expertise in your market, implying that it’s not about the money. It’s about the mentorship. By contrast, dumb money may appear attractive, but often, without the added market expertise and personal relationship, it leads to misunderstandings and misalignment of expectations. These are problems that can literally destroy a company. 
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