Works
- Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career, 2013
In Tactics of Organizational Politics
Ideas
Sponsorship. Hewlett distinguishes sponsors from mentors: a mentor gives advice, while a sponsor uses his or her own standing to advocate for and advance a protégé. Sponsorship is an exchange in which the protégé supplies strong performance and loyalty.
What it explains
Hewlett explains why advancement inside organizations depends on a senior person willing to spend reputation on someone's behalf, and why that backing has to be earned with results and loyalty. The book is a popular career guide that draws on her organization's surveys.