If Mentoring were a Movie

Watching television was often the impetus for backyard play when we were kids. Watch a baseball game and you were looking for your bat and glove by the end of the ninth inning. If it was cowboys and Indians on the tube, we donned bows and arrows or cap pistols as we headed out back to mimic what we had watched. As adults, we still do. Movies and TV influence our work life.

How many times at work have you heard lines like: “Make you an offer you can’t refuse” (from The Godfather), “Show me the...