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About 60% of CEOs polled cited creativity as the most important leadership quality, compared with 52% for integrity and 35% for global thinking.

in North America, 65% of CEOs think integrity is a top quality for tomorrow's leaders, whereas only 29-48% of CEOs in other territories view it as such.

3. Pass out the slingshots.  I was on a panel with Joe Trippi last night, and he talked about empowering your champions to spread your message and do your work.  He said it’s like handing out slingshots to an army of Davids.  You don’t have to carry the burden of conversation alone like some Goliath social media guru.  That doesn’t work well anyway.  The more your supporters take over your engagement, the more effective your message—and the saner your life.

Users can use the platform by logging in through Facebook or Twitter. Comments are threaded, and can be voted up (“Liked”). Comments can be synced across a publisher’s site and Facebook Page, meaning that a comment made on a publisher’s site will show up on its Facebook Page, and vice versa.

the most common tactics implemented last year were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. Fewer than four in 10 small businesses were engaging in those activities, and only about one-quarter had e-mail sign-up forms on their social profiles or links within e-mail messages to follow them on social sites.

A majority plan to allow users to sign up for e-mails directly from social media sites like Facebook.

Almost one-half of small businesses will include “follow us” links in their e-mails, and about 44% will include share options in their messages.