SYLVIA HEWLETT: One example I use is a woman who was an executive in the financial services world, and she had a very outstanding protégé who went silent for about eight months, failed to keep her in the loop, reach out to her, because I say throughout this study that it’s up to the younger person to actually drive the relationship because we always need to remember that the senior person has a huge scarcity of time on their hands. ALISON BEARD: So at what stage in my career should I be thinking about sponsoring people in addition to or rather than finding people to sponsor me? ALISON BEARD: And through all of this, especially if you’re sponsoring more than one person, you recommend three, how do you make sure that you’re not taking on too much, and then getting distracted from your work?