ABSTRACT
Leadership means different things to different people in different contexts, which accounts for the baffling spectrum of theories, models, and methods, all jockeying for the leadership vanguard. Primarily, leaders fail or fall short of their potential because they have an undiscovered and/or unhealed Achilles heel—a weakness serious enough to negate all of the many positive attributes they may be blessed with. Good leaders understand that organizations cannot grow unless people grow, including the leader and everyone else. Mentoring provides a framework to bring about a cultural change in the way the organization views the professional development of competent people. The organization reifies its capabilities through perpetual learning, enhancing every person from the inside out, and working the same internal alchemy on the overarching team structure. Since continual change is a given, a leader must resolve to put change to work, squeeze a harness around it, and ride it toward the right horizon.
