I was standing in the security line at an airport when a TSA worker came walking alongside the line yelling out in an animated way, “No liquids, no aerosols, no gels or creams on the airplane…You better check yourself before you wreck yourself!” I couldn’t stop myself from laughing out loud.

When you’re the new boss, it feels great to have employees agree with your decisions. But, agreement isn’t always a good thing, as one of my clients found out. “John” was new in his director-level role and needed to quickly assess several situations and make some decisions. During one meeting in particular, employees seemed to be paying close attention to the discussion.

There are few skills that will bring more opportunity into your life than the ability to speak well in public. Below are 12 tips that can make the difference between those speakers who leave a powerful, positive impression and those that are quickly forgotten. Speak with an intent to move people to action. Know what you want your audience to do immediately after hearing your speech.

One of the most intriguing attributes in business is sentiment. Sentiment is challenging to identify and even harder to measure. It is the Wild West, an untapped frontier where entrepreneurs can soar and thinkers/analyzers take a back seat. Sentiment is generally defined as an attitude, a thought or a judgment that is prompted by feeling. Current sentiment-measuring tools are inadequate for that very reason—they are incapable of measuring feelings.

The average person has 70,000 thoughts each day, and if you don’t learn to organize them, they have the potential to wreak havoc on your productivity. When you succumb to the flurry of thoughts running through your head, your mind becomes disorganized, and the more you ruminate on intrusive thoughts, the more power you give them. Most of our thoughts are just that—thoughts, not facts.

Imagine if you could build your business doing only what feels good to you, all the time. No more spending countless hours learning how to code, trying to become Instagram famous, hacking the SEO algorithm, or self-bookkeeping. Sound impossible? Meet 28-year-old Jordan Gray, a relationship expert with five best-selling books on Amazon and an audience of over 20 million readers. He’s achieved all this in the three years since launching his personal website.

Danielle Weisberg, left, and Carly Zakin of TheSkimm. Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg left their jobs in TV four years ago to found their wildly popular email newsletter TheSkimm, but the vestiges of their respective careers at MSNBC and NBC News remain in the way they describe their readership. TheSkimm counts 3.5 million subscribers to its daily news briefing aimed at young women, many of whom report reading it on their phones in bed in lieu of picking up a paper — or watching TV.

The construction industry is responsible for undertaking some of the biggest and most expensive projects on Earth. Huge amounts of resources and work go into major construction projects and of course this means that huge volumes of data are generated. Number crunching has always been a big part of construction – a commonly heard phrase is that construction companies are accounting companies which happen to erect buildings.

The workplace of the past is gone… We are now talking about homing from work, not working from home. Tim Oldman uses his background in interior design and architecture, along with his fascination in merging diagnostic tools like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to get a better understanding of employee spaces.

We are witnessing the death (or at least the ineffectiveness) of the traditional cover letter for job applicants. If you want to stand out in the crowd, hiring managers today prefer something a little more interesting and efficient. “Try a video cover letter,” says Chris Brown, vice president of human resources at telecommunications and collaboration solutions company West Corporation.