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title: Blog | Mentoring (2)
description: Mentoring | Leading NOW's blog features insights from Leading Forward, Leading Women, Center for Diversity & Inclusion, and the Gender Dynamics Institute.   (2)
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## [Make the Most of Mentoring: Drucker Loves CAKE!](https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/bid/75490/make-the-most-of-mentoring-drucker-loves-cake)

In Dan Rockwell's recent blog revealing Peter Drucker's 9 Functions of a Mentor, Rockwell lists 9 things a mentor should do. I wondered if he and, by extension, famed leadership theorist Drucker, were offering up CAKE or PIE Mentoring™ ideas.

 2 min read | [Susan Colantuono](https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/author/susan-colantuono) 

[Read ON!](https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/bid/75490/make-the-most-of-mentoring-drucker-loves-cake)

[The Missing 33%®](https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/topic/the-missing-33) [Mentoring](https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/topic/mentoring)

<https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/bid/73237/recipes-for-mentoring-success-cake-and-pie>

## [Recipes for Mentoring Success: CAKE and PIE](https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/bid/73237/recipes-for-mentoring-success-cake-and-pie)

In general, it is a mentor’s job to help her protégé position herself to achieve career success and the protégé’s job to work with her mentor to achieve career goals. When it comes to career success, our research indicates that men and women speak differently about mentors and their roles. Understanding this difference will help engage managers and executives as better mentors (and women as stronger protégés).

 7 min read | [Susan Colantuono](https://www.leadingnow.biz/blog/author/susan-colantuono) 

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