True Mentorship Is Never Scripted
By Master Chief Quartermaster Michael Harrison, USN
On top of the myriad programs already in place in the Navy, it appears we are about to embrace yet another: a new mentorship program that mandates everyone to have a mentor, and everyone to be a mentor. I have trouble buying into another this-is-here-to-stay leadership program. In a Utopian society, programmed mentorship might reap great rewards. In an environment of warfare, however, it is profoundly naive to think that something so intensely personal as the mentor-protégé relationship can occur merely by making it a requirement. Perhaps just as improbable is any expectation that all leaders will privately accept it.
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Master Chief Harrison has more than 27 years of naval service. He has been a crewmember in six ships and four shore stations, including leading quartermaster of the Enterprise (CVN-65) and command master chief of Naval Leader Training Unit, Little Creek, Virginia.
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