10 Tips for Getting Back Up

When you go after a goal, you’ll fall down a time or two. If not, it’s not a very challenging goal. Either that or you aren’t trying very hard. So let’s assume it’s a very challenging goal and that you are trying very hard and that you have crashed to the ground.
Here are 10 things you can do to help yourself get back up.

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Quote of the Week: In Celebration of Lombardi Gras

While the official kick off of Mardi Gras isn’t until tomorrow, the party started last week when the New Orleans Saints won Super Bowl XLIV and brought home the Lombardi Trophy. It was a great victory – a much needed morale boost – for a city that has been slowly re-building from the devastation from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many have called the celebration, “Lombardi Gras”. It’s a perfect time to remember wise words from Vince Lombardi that serve to boost morale and productivity – words that can help us get 2 goal – words that can help us help others do the same.

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What’s your favorite presidential quote?

What’s your favorite or most inspirational or most helpful presidential quote?

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Movie of the Week: For Presidents Day

For those of us who want to be better managers…there is much to learn from United States Presidents past and present. Here is a quick review – all 44 of them in less than 4 minutes.

While watching it, my thought was about the many faces of leadership. There are many ways to do it right and wrong. And the right way for one of us may not be the right way for others.

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A Tip from the President

Here’s a tip from the President….actually five from Abraham Lincoln.

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10 Tips from Lincoln On Leadership

A great book on leadership is Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times by Donald Phillips. Each chapter is summarized by a list of “Lincoln Principles”. Here are ten of my favorites.

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