Leaders with lasting impact understand the importance of developing the next generation of leaders. Young leaders know the value of finding an experienced someone to show them the ropes. Here's a hands-on guide to mentoring and being mentored.

The Trouble With Mentors [1]

Our correspondent seeks out the counsel of great men (and women) and learns a valuable lesson: The best advice to follow is your own. Harriet Rubin

``It`s Cool to Be Smart`` [2]

Freeman Hrabowski is nurturing a new generation of African-American scientists and mathematicians. His lesson plan: high standards, hand-on help, and some killer chess. Chuck Salter

Great Harvest`s Recipe for Growth [3]

How has Great Harvest Bread Co. opened 130 bakeries in 34 states? Freedom, community, and ideas: "We`re a brand company, but we`re also a university. We`re creating a community of learning. Heath Row

A Leader`s Journey [4]

Paul Wieand went on a quest for power and became one of the banking industry`s youngest-ever CEOs. Then his world collapsed, and he went on a painful search for the real meaning of leadership. Now he helps other leaders on their journeys. Pamela Kruger

Leader on the Edge [5]

World-renowned explorer Robert Swan is the first person ever to walk to both the North and South Poles. Now he`s teaching businesspeople about leadership under life-and-death conditions. Curtis Sittenfeld

Hope and Dreams [6]

University of North Carolina professor Jim Johnson teaches business-school students, but his real mission is to build bridges. Chuck Salter

The Most Creative Man in Silicon Valley [7]

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Michael Ray has taught some of the best-known innovators in Silicon Valley how to be more creative. It`s no wonder that both students and executives are clamoring for his lessons. Curtis Sittenfeld

Inside Intel`s Mentoring Movement [8]

Forget everything that you`ve ever learned about mentoring, especially the idea of hitching your wagon to a rising star. Here`s how Intel is reinventing the old approach to mentoring to teach, inspire, and reconnect its employees. Fara Warner

An Unorthodox Guide to Mentoring [9]

Forget what you`ve always been told about how mentoring arrangements should work. Here`s one woman`s unsparing look at the pleasures and perils of the workplace`s most complicated relationship. Harriet Rubin

Want to Grow as a Leader? Get a Mentor! [10]

Even top executives need mentors -- and sometimes the best mentors work elsewhere. Jennifer Reingold