According to Marketing Sherpa's 2011 Email Marketing Benchmark Survey, nearly two-thirds of marketers are expecting their email marketing budgets to grow in 2011. Ten percent of more than 1,100 marketers surveyed say their companies' email marketing spend will rise by at least 30 percent. MORE >>

Baker says that, "Many people conceive of their business dealings as spot market exchanges--value given for value received, period. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership. Organizational psychology has long concerned itself with how to design work so that people will enjoy it and want to keep doing it. The Law of Reciprocity. Robert B. MORE >>

Business and government leaders have been talking for decades about advancing more women to top leadership and professional roles. Almost nine in 10 CEOs agree that tapping female talent is important to "getting the best brains" and competing in markets where women now make most of the purchasing decisions, the McKinsey study says. MORE >>

Persuasion is pulling the rope and positional leadership is pushing the rope.  For Peter Drucker, leadership is about communicating with people, uniting them behind a shared mission and values, and mobilizing energies toward accomplishing the mission or purpose of an organization.  Your Leadership Checklist. Carl Sandburg. MORE >>

Stock Market has always been based on knowing more than the general public does about market direction and the industry, company and corporate leadership of those stocks you invest in. So, why would you play in the market when you know the game is rigged? Especially in volatile markets, the temptation to cheat is fierce. MORE >>