Photo by Gabriel Barletta via Unsplash The “slash career” is all rage with millennials, and it’s important for employers to pay attention. You know what I’m talking about, right? “I’m a lawyer/writer.” “I work in marketing; I’m also a professional actor.” “I’m in tech, and I have photography business on the side.

Pexels There is an art to civilized conversation. If you want to network and engage with clients on a deeper level, and empower your staff successfully you should know how to give a genuine compliment. One of the easiest, most cost effective ways to improve your corporate culture and boost your rate of employee retention is through acknowledgement. Statistics prove acknowledgement of top performers dramatically decreases employee turnover.

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) How do I explain being fired to a potential employer? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Jérôme Cukier, software engineer, on Quora: Your answer should: Be true. Help you advance in the interview process (or at least not stop you). It’s very important to keep both of these things in mind.

Your days of working with little or no pay raise may soon be ending — finally. Consider: Starbucks’ U.S. employees and managers will soon get pay increases of at least 5% and J.P. Morgan Chase will boost its minimum hourly wage for 18,000 employees (mainly bank tellers) over the next three years to $12 to $16.50, up from $10.15. According to the June jobs report, average hourly wages rose 2.6%, the most since the recession in 2009.

Can you begin to live your best life ever by applying a series of simple mental techniques in your day-to-day life? Personally, I’ve been on an evolving journey when it comes to mindset strategies for success. In my twenties, I thought it was all hogwash and I just wanted to learn practical tactics—things to do. In my thirties, I began to realize the importance of slowing down and how the right psychology can lead to the right activities.

Shutterstock One of the problems with the crusty apparatus I call Godzilla — the structure of rules, policies and hierarchy that serves as the backbone to nearly every business or institution — is that feedback of any kind flows down more easily than it flows up. That’s why managers seldom get as much feedback as they need.

The Challenge It’s one of the most daunting tasks for a startup CEO: controlling budget and cash burn. It would be great to say “cash flow” rather than “cash burn.” But the reality for me, the CEO of a biotech startup, is that no money comes into our early stage company outside of investments. Every startup has the same challenge – how to find the right people. I need so many people, but I cannot afford them all.

Jerry Yang’s genius is partially to blame for Yahoo selling to Verizon. (Ethan Pines For Forbes) In 2005, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang pulled off what would be one of the greatest strategic investments in tech history: he arranged for Yahoo to spend $1 billion for a 40% stake in fledgling Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer couldn’t turn around the web giant. (Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg) Yahoo was once the king of the Internet, a $125 billion behemoth as big in its time as Facebook or Google are today. Now it’s being sold to Verizon for comparative chump change. On Monday morning, Yahoo announced the end of the long process to extricate itself from a mess of its own making with a sale of its core operating business to Verizon for $4.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has presided over a declining business. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) Iconic web portal Yahoo agreed to sell its core operating business to Verizon for $4.8 billion on Monday morning, ending 22 years of independence. CEO Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, tried to turn around Yahoo but her tenure was marred by confused strategy and mismanagement.