This is evidence that a leader’s emotions can influence others’ emotions. Now, research indicates the effect of a leader’s emotions go one step further. How you feel can impact workgroup performance, for good or ill.

Convert without fear of making the wrong decision. Perhaps you were in a higher tax bracket than you thought. Perhaps your Roth IRA declined in value, creating more taxes than necessary.

You can learn a lot about communications from more challenging folks.

You have about eight weeks to impact your 2009 revenue with your marketing programs. No need to give up on the year, although 2010 is at our doorstep and you do need to also focus now on a strong start to the New Year.

With most of the stimulus dollars expected to be doled out in 2010, combined with record levels of cash held by investors earning close to zero, there is still a lot of liquidity headed into the economy and investment markets. Whether that means continued investment growth is debatable, but we are a long way from September 2008.

Helping employees and team members to assess their strengths is a meaningful way to create successful endeavors.

In your career and in your business, your communications style either can drive your success or secure your failure. It’s important to include more "treats" than "tricks" when selling to prospects, serving customers or marketing your business.

What the heck do karma and dharma have to do with your direct marketing success? Plenty. In this world, nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve, in life or in business.

Like Maxx, the market goes in the direction most suited to its mood, based on the behavior of the universe of buyers and sellers investing in it on that particular day.

While the recovery isn’t likely to be a steep one, have you put your strategic action plan in place? Now is certainly the time to move your organization’s thought process from survival to thriving in the next economic cycle.