mentorship

CEO of Sambatek (Minneapolis, MN), a professional services firm with an authentic culture that promotes openness, transparency, and trust.

“Mentors and those whom they are mentoring have to select each other. It’s a mutual thing based on chemistry.”

CEO of Chipman Design Architecture, a third-generation, family-owned firm based in Chicago, Illinois.

“Years ago, I worked for an A/E firm in Memphis by the name of Pickering, Wooten, Smith and Weiss. My boss was Don Smith and my mentor was Irving Weiss. Both of them taught me a lot about this business.”

In terms of feedback, there’s a big difference between what millennials want and what you’ve been told they want.

When it comes to delegation, you have to pick the right person for the right job, and set them up to succeed.