Photo: Shutterstock Throughout my life, my father would often remind me: “If you enrich your mind with meaningful knowledge each day, it will grow stronger – if you put it to the test, it will grow wiser.” Wisdom guides our thinking, attitude and overall mindset. It pushes us to break through boundaries, and to see beyond the obvious. It directs our personal reinvention and how our leadership influences everything and everyone we come into contact with each day.

For someone who has made a fortune trading in words, Liz Elting can be remarkably tight-lipped. But the 50-year-old cofounder of TransPerfect, one of the world’s largest translation firms, is acting under lawyers’ orders. Her attorneys don’t want her saying much about the messy corporate divorce she’s been embroiled in with her co-CEO and onetime fiancé, Phil Shawe.

We’re almost halfway through 2016, making now – yes, now – an opportune time to check in on the goals you made for yourself at the start of the year. How are you doing on that early morning workout routine? Have you made a dent in the stack of books on your nightstand? Have you saved more money? Are you whistling and looking in the other direction? We’ve all been there. Change is hard.

Shutterstock I’m an executive coach to a number of leaders who are making significant strides and rapidly advancing their careers forward, and I can honestly tell you that coaching isn’t for everyone. Here’s why. You can’t help those who don’t want to be helped. People think I’m crazy when I turn down coaching assignments that appear to be easy money in the bank.

Shutterstock “The ability to control my emotions and my actions, regardless of circumstance, sets me apart from other men.”– Navy SEAL Creed In the Navy SEAL teams, there are three things we must do perfectly to be effective operators: Move, Shoot and Communicate. Communication being of the utmost importance.

Image Credit: Lenovo / C. Silver Future nostalgia. Aside from being the name of the new Sheepdogs album, the term means we feel nostalgia for something that hasn’t happened yet as if it already has. Like snapping a brand new Motorola Razr in half. Or holding a flip phone up to our head like the status symbol it was. Back in 2004, if you weren’t using a Motorola Razr V3, you were using a blocky Nokia 7610 (the Nissan Cube of phones) and feeling left out.

Shutterstock As the CEO of a company, I’ve hired a lot of employees, fired a few, and watched my fair share head into retirement. I’ve also quit a job—a really good one—to go off and chase my dreams. Having been on both sides of the spectrum, I can tell you that no matter how much you hate your boss, believe your small business plan is a guaranteed win, or can’t wait to be free; there is a right and a wrong way to quit your job and start a business.

76% of all organizations are planning to increase or maintain their investment in big data over the next two to three years. 52% of enterprises globally see Big Data as an opportunity, and only 4.5% see it as a threat. Despite widespread optimism regarding Big Data’s potential, only 23.5% of enterprises have a clear strategy today.

Credit: Shutterstock As the class of 2016 nears the end of their formal education, it looks like they’re in for a nasty surprise when they enter the workforce. For not only does their degree not provide the automatic entry to a job that they hoped, but even when they get a job they will earn considerably less than they expect. And far from being the springboard into the world that they might have wanted, for many their graduation day means having to move back in with mom and dad.

Big Data will leave no sector untouched as it continues to change the way we think about everything from sales to human resources, and medicine and healthcare are no different. For years, the basis of most medical research and discovery has been the collection and analysis of data: who gets sick, how they get sick and why.