Quote of the Week: Using All Gears?
As Bike Week comes to a close, this week’s Leadership Quote of the Week is about bikes and gears. Are you using all of your “gears”? How about the people on your team? Are you/they using them at the right times? Are the shifts smooth?
If not, you and/or your team are not operating at peak performance.
Read more10 Tips for Tough Times
This week’s Quick List* is a companion to our Quote of the Week which is:
Tough times never last; tough people do.
But besides knowing that tough times aren’t going to last forever…what else can we do?
How are we going to get through the tough times?
Read more10 Ways to Punch This Economy in the Nose
It’s about time for somebody to punch this economy in the nose! That’s our Quote of the Week which was spotted in the Southwest Air terminal in the Salt Lake City Airport. Besides doing what Southwest Air intended – what can we do to punch this economy in the nose? Here are 10 suggestions.
Read moreSpecial Feature: Inspired by Eve Carson
Eve Carson was President of her high school in Athens, Georgia. She was valedictorian of her class.
She went to UNC Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar, was Phi Beta Kappa and selected as a North Carolina Fellow. She spent her summers studying and volunteering in Wyoming, Ecuador and Egypt. She was President of the Student Body.
She always had time for people. Loved to have dance parties. Looked for the good in everything and everyone. Fun, fun loving and loved by so many.
With all of these (plus many more) activities, she still had a 3.9 GPA and was scheduled to graduate in May 2008 with highest distinction in biology and political science.
Two months prior to graduation, she was gunned down in what police called a random act of violence.
Read moreLesson from the Hot Dog Dad
This is an important reminder about managing tough times from the Dad in The Hot Dog Story.
Read moreNeed More Strength? What About Your Vendors?
Note from Jan: This is part of a series on managing tough times. For full benefit, I encourage you to read the articles in sequence. For your convenience, here are the…
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