Dear Liz, I’m in a tough spot at work. It’s pretty discouraging because it’s been a good job for almost five years. I got promoted to a Team Leader job three and a half years ago and it’s gone really well. My team has grown. They are great people. They are mainly in their twenties but we have team members who are older than that, too. Our team has a fun culture and we like one another. I couldn’t ask for a better working situation.

Gartner forecasts 25B IoT-based installed devices by 2020, with 6.8B alone in smart cities. Smart machines will become a catalyst of Industrie 4.0 adoption across global governments. Spending by national, federal and local governments worldwide on technology products and services is forecast to grow from $430.1B in 2016 to $476.1B by 2020.

I’m usually not a fan of Broadway musicals, but I have to admit that I’ve been blown away by ‘Hamilton.’ The production effortlessly blends witty lyrics with a historical narrative that still resonates over two hundred years later. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the show is Hamilton himself, played by the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Nely Galán’s immigrant story began in Cuba in the 1960s, and has yet to end. When she and her family arrived in the United States, they started over from scratch. She saw how hard her parents worked, and followed suit. The “immigrant mindset” would inform everything she did thereafter; she credits that thinking with her success as an executive, motivational speaker, and advocate for women’s empowerment.

Shutterstock Which motivational techniques really work is a topic of endless debate–but one trick may eclipse the rest, according to new research. Motivational “self-talk” reigned supreme in an expansive new study that evaluated three popular techniques. More than 44,000 people participated in the study—an unprecedented number for this flavor of research—that tested self-talk, “imagery” and “if-then planning.

In the summer of 2014, as the crisis in Ukraine deepened after Russia annexed its Crimean peninsula, Jessica Rovello and her husband Kenny Rosenblatt faced a daunting situation: their tech company Arkadium had an office with 100 employees in Crimea. Everyone there suddenly had to become Russian and work under Russian law.

A study by Michigan State University’s Collegiate Employment Research Institute details which bachelors’ degrees lead to the highest starting salaries. (image: Shutterstock) The world of STEM (that’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) gets high marks this year on a ranking of the college majors that lead to the highest starting salaries.

Shutterstock Whether you’re delivering presentations in front of colleagues, teaching industry workshops or stepping on stage at a local or national conference, you’ve probably come across the same public-speaking advice one million times: “Picture them naked!” “Practice!” “Make eye contact!” In my corporate years, I wrote speeches and helped prepare executives on their upcoming speaking engagements, from financial gatherings to SXSWedu.

Startup founders are often given this piece of rather universal of advice: Hire A-level players. While it’s probably safe to assume that most companies are not looking to hire mediocre employees, what makes someone an A-level player differs from company to company. When you’re hiring at an early stage startup, it’s not just about a candidate’s resume and laurels.

Shutterstock My 40 (ahem, er) somethingth birthday is in, like four days. This means, among other things, that I spend no shortage of time contemplating things like Botox, grandiose adventures (YOLO, people. YOLO) and a potential brand, new Corvette (I grew up in Detroit; this was near the top of the list of classic “mid-life crisis” moves, as I observed it). Oh, yeah. And serums to hide dark circles under my eyes. Oh, the hours I spend on this one.