Look Up and Around: Musings on Mentors, Role Models, and Professionalism (Revised and Updated)

Authors

Steven L. Schooner, George Washington University Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

Status

Accepted

Abstract

As part of Contract Management magazine's 2020 Professional Development issue, this (revised and updated) article offers a rather simple overarching suggestion for successful professionals and future leaders: look up and around. The article encourages readers to identify mentors, embrace the strengths of their role models, and open themselves up to learn from others, evolve, and grow. The article discusses, among other things, education, networking, professional development (and, of course, writing), and the power of optimism.

GW Paper Series

No. 2020-02

SSRN Link

https://ssrn.com/abstract=3521478

Comments

This is an updated version of a paper previously posted in 2014: https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/1112/

Recommended Citation

60 Contract Management, Issue 1, 34 (January 2020)