In a famous study first conducted in 1960, psychologist Walter Mischel put 4 to 6-year-old children alone in a room with a marshmallow. Before he left the room, he’d tell them they could eat it now; or, if they waited a few minutes until he came back, they’d get two. The kids usually devoured the marshmallow immediately. Sometimes, however, Mischel told the children that one way to resist the marshmallow now and get two later is by pretending the marshmallow wasn’t there.

Saudi Minister of Energy, Industrial and Mineral Resources Khalid al-Falih (R) talks with the president of OPEC and Qatar’s Energy Minister, Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada during the opening ceremony of the Qatari and Saudi Economic Forum on November 6, 2016 in Riyadh. On Friday, the Saudis postponed an upcoming meeting with non-OPEC members over disagreements on how to share the burden of oil production cuts.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I interviewed for an Account Management Supervisor job with a marketing agency four weeks ago. Two weeks ago, they had me come back and interview with the VP of Account Services. Those meetings went very well. Last week I had a phone call with the Managing Director of the firm, who started out our conversation by saying “My colleagues tell me you’re their top choice for the job.” That was encouraging.

Shutterstock Some people seem to be on a smooth trajectory when it comes to career success. They have regular opportunities for career advancement and seem to be in a professional perpetual motion. What separates these superstars from most professionals in the world of work? They avoid these three traps that stall an otherwise promising career: 1. The Get-It-Done Trap Making things happen is critical to success.

Photo by iStock By Andrea Simon It’s impossible to ignore that we are living in an era of rapid and relentless change — societal, demographic, economic, and of course, personal. As a corporate anthropologist, I often work with companies on how to use “a little anthropology” to help them see their business problems with fresh eyes in order to drive change. This same approach can be helpful when navigating changes in one’s personal and professional life.

Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes Apple’s problems with the iPhone 6 Plus and 6S, a magical power source for the iPhone 8, thoughts on the iPhone 7S, new problems with iOS 10, a new ten-inch educational iPad, Apple dropping out of the router business, where Jony Ive is going next year, and the ultimate app for the MacBook Pro Touch Bar.

Participants of the Diversity at Work Event. From left: Leo Wong, Brandon Atkinson, Yves Peeters, Xian Horn, Sara McCook, Donna Johnson, Paolo Gaudiano, Yixiu Wang, David Simpson, Gilda Barabino, Nikolaas Bellens, Mary Scotton, Chike Ukaegbu (credit: E. Hunt).

Coravin, the ingenious system that allows restaurants and wine lovers to pour a glass of wine without ever having to remove the cork from the bottle, recently received $22.5 million in equity financing. This is a major infusion of capital for the company that, in just a few short years, has had a marked impact on how wine by the glass is sold in restaurants and how home collectors can enjoy their own bottles.

Dear Liz, I use the LinkedIn headline “Experienced Enterprise Software PM Seeking New Challenge” and it gets me a decent number of inquiries from corporate recruiters and headhunters. Because I say flat out in my LinkedIn headline that I’m job-hunting, everybody assumes (correctly) that I’m unemployed, and they assume (incorrectly) that I will take any job at any salary they offer me. I earned $120K in my last job and I am fairly flexible now down to about $100K.

Fewof us were taught as kids how to choose a career, find a job or navigate in the workplace. In the old Corporate Ladder era you might only have to job-hunt once or twice during a forty-year career. Now we all need to know how to job-hunt, and how to manage in the new-millennium working world where a job can disappear at any moment! We all need to know how to manage a job search while we’re still working at the old job, and we have to know how to quit a job.