Office space is the creative heart of any organization. Whether its a brick-and-mortar storefront or a busy co-working space, theoffice is where the magic of ideas happen. But what if youare working with a very fixed budget? Sierra Barter, CEO and founder of The Lady Project, found herself in just that place. She found that creativity, killer negotiation skills and a squad of smart friends helpedmake an office dream a reality.

Shutterstock It’s December, and that means your year-end performance review is probably right around the corner. Take this opportunity to ask for something that’s valuable to you. That could mean a raise, of course, but I also encourage you to think bigger picture about your career goals for the next one to two years. Are you fulfilled in your role, or hungry for a new challenge? Perhaps you’re hoping for that next promotion, or seeking a transfer to a new division.

Culture is the defining characteristic in any company, good or bad. As companies grow and get further away from their beginning, an inevitable shift occurs. What made the company great at the start doesn’t alwaysscaleas the company grows. LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, understands the value in a healthy culture, and they focus on creating a great one.

Attempts by hackers to bring down online systems and compromise valuable data are on the rise. Just last month, one of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever launched was responsible for making the internet unusable across large parts of the USA, and services at Twitter, Netflix and many other places were forced offline. These attacks are sometimes carried out to steal data.

Photo Courtesy of SendGrid This monthSendGrid, a cloud-based customer communication platform, announced the opening of its new global headquarters in downtown Denver.A leader in email deliverability, SendGrid has 40,000 paying customers and delivers over 30 billion emails each month for internet and mobile-based customers like Airbnb, Pandora, HubSpot, Spotify, Uber and FourSquare and more traditional enterprises like Intuit and Costco.

It’s pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain about—few things are as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door. But managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don’t leave jobs; they leave managers.

A decade ago, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos looked like he was making yet another risky bet, this time something that looked to nearly everyone as a distraction from its core online retailing business. He would provide storage and computing services Amazon was already using for its own operations as a sort of digital utility to startups that didn’t want buy their own computers and software.

Pexels.com Despite popular belief that millennials are entitled and lazy, research actually suggests that millennials are work martyrs. A work martyr is defined by Project: Time Off, as a person who believes it is more important to work long hours over true productivity. The work martyr often won’t take breaks or use vacation time out of fear he or she may be seen as replaceable or undedicated to the job.

Taking a look back at seven days of news and headlines across the world of Android, this week’s Android Circuit includes another confirmation of the Galaxy S8, the new shiny Galaxy S7, the strength of Samsung’s brand name, a review of the OnePlus 3T, Nokia’s return to the smartphone market and MWC in 2017, more developers following Google’s Material Design, Xiaomi teasing new hardware at CES, and the world’s number one solitaire game coming to Android.

‘Moana’ image courtesy of Walt Disney Walt Disney’s Moana sailed across the Thanksgiving box office seathis past weekend, making $82 million in its initial five days in North America. It is the second-biggest Thanksgiving debut of all time, behind Walt Disney’s Frozen ($93.5m) back in 2013.There is much to celebrate about the blockbuster debut for Disney’s latest toon.