Sponsorship: Defining the Relationship
Women at Work
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The Importance of Social Capital in Mentorship
Mentorship is more about the provision of time. But sponsorship, and I think, Amy, you mentioned this in your interview, is really about the providing of social capital. For mentorship, it's not clear to me that if the mentee succeeds or doesn't succeed, that the mentor is actually going to be impacted. If the protege does really well, that actually reflects well on the sponsor but if the protege fails, that also has negative ramifications. So the interconnection of the reputation becomes intertwined in a way that I don't think is true of just pure mentorship.
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