Why Don't More Senior Leaders Mentor?

The article focuses on the relative lack of mentoring by senior leaders of corporations and other large organizations. Corporations face the need to replace most if not all of their senior leaders as the baby boom generation of managers reaches retirement age. Despite this acknowledged problem, many senior leaders do not engage in mentoring of potential successors or younger employees in general. Interviews were conducted with senior leaders in a variety of fields. The most common excuses given for not mentoring are contradicted by other research findings. Suggestions are given on how companies and organizations can create programs to overcome the resistance to mentoring.