When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources.

Not only is a LinkedIn group free to create, it can enable you to offer your professional network a vibrant, useful information resource, all while driving traffic to your site and increasing sales.

It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.

Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business.

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.