We are stepping out of one era and into a new one where our careers are concerned. For years, we thought that our biggest career milestones were things like pay raises and promotions into management. In the old days, we pegged our career success to other people’s decisions. That’s why so many of us have  been programmed to please any boss in sight. We were trained to desperately want our manager’s approval.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, over 2 million people are quitting their jobs each month, and that number is only growing. On average millennials will change jobs at least 4 times by the time they are 32, nearly twice as much as the previous generation. Knowing when it’s time to quit is crucial to long-term success. Seth Godin, author of the best-selling book “The Dip,” says “The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one.

It’s important to bring thoughtful questions to any job interview. You’ve got to ask questions at a job interview for at least three reasons: There are things you have to know about a new job, a manager and a company before you accept a job offer. Your questions will show your interviewer that you’re awake and aware and understand the role you’re interviewing for.

From an international perspective, the rise and rise of Donald Trump has dominated the narrative of the 2015 US presidential election. His ongoing success at attracting supporters has been called an “anomaly” for many reasons. One is because his primary campaign is, if not entirely then to an unusual extent, self-funded. Another is that while other candidates have all developed analytical strategies for targeting swing voters on the campaign trail, Donald has not.

Barbara Corcoran made a small fortune in real estate when she sold The Corcoran Group, her New York-based residential brokerage house, in 2001 for $60 million. “The money was actually a surprise to me. Money isn’t driving entrepreneurs, success is. You get the satisfaction of self-made success. It’s better than sex. Sex is short-term,” Corcoran says.

Shutterstock Rapid change is crushing conventional companies. They can’t keep up with new technology, intensifying competition, and shifting demand. “We moved from a world of information scarcity to a world of information ubiquity,” says Adam Pisoni, co-founder of Yammer and Responsive.org. “The world formed a giant network. And that has accelerated the pace of change to crescendo.

You know your idea inside and out. But to pitch it effectively to others you need to look at the big picture and understand your product through someone else’s eyes. I propose that the perfect elevator pitch is one that’s crafted for an audience of one. Here’s what to do. 1. Narrow down your idea to one sentence Early on, Airbnb’s one-sentence pitch was “Book rooms with locals, rather than hotels”.

Shutterstock Marketers are often pegged with questions related to the future of social media such as: Is Facebook still relevant? What’s the next social platform? Which is most powerful: a like, share, retweet, favorite? And, my personal favorite, how can I increase my reach on social media? While these are all fair questions, attempting to grade the social landscape in this manner is counterproductive and missing the greater point.

Duvet all day: Arthur stayed under the covers the day her startup died. (Courtesy of Lumina/Stocksy) This isn’t going to be your typical startup post-mortem about how it took the founders seven months to figure out the app didn’t have product-market fit only to spend the last of the VC money on an ayahuasca sabbatical. Oh no — this is a story about what happened to a real entrepreneur with a real business on the day her dream died.

Shutterstock The old adage says, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Building a valuable network can help drive a successful career. However, having knowledge about who and what is often less important the facts surrounding when. It seems that today, timing is everything. Perhaps the adage should change to It’s not who or what you know, it’s when.