If you search out “Bobby Jindal” on YouTube, you may be surprised to find that Louisiana’s governor is a pretty good speaker. You’ll discover that his very poorly delivered response to President Obama back on February 24th was an anomaly. Sadly, when you’re that much in the spotlight and your delivery is that bad, the rest of it doesn’t matter in the eyes of the average person. All they know is: Bobby Jindal sounded like Kenneth, the page on 30 Rock.

The lesson for all of us is that it’s important to get things right the first time. Correcting a bad impression with a client or your bosses, while not quite as monumental as the task facing Jindal, is still not easy to do.