Telecom giant AT&T announced on Saturday nightan $86 billion acquisition of film and TV-maker Time Warner that will create a cross-industry behemoth with the goal of standing strong against the shiftingmedia landscape.

Millennials are often thought to be a lazy generation, and even Martha Stewart jumped on that bandwagon in an interview earlier this year. Yet, workplace data shows millennials tend to be workaholics. A recent survey fromProject:TimeOff says 43% of millennials identify themselves as work martyrs, compared to 29% of all who responded. What is a work martyr? It’s someone who will agree with these four statements: “No one else at my company can do the work while I’m away.

Shutterstock Of all the things that can make you worry at work, some of the worst are the problems you create. This is especially true when negative things happen and you find yourself waiting for them to happen again. Let me give you a couple of examples. Say you’ve been in an organization that’s been through a lot of change. Then one day, unexpectedly, you get laid off.

Shutterstock Ambition can have a negative connotation for people in business, especially for women, but it’s a necessary quality for success in the modern day workplace. The key is to harness your ambition into something sustainable that builds your success rather than undercuts it. Ambition run amok undercuts your resilience, can cause you to miss burnout warning signs and may even interfere with your ability to recognize good professional risks. Harvard Business School professor, Dr.

Shutterstock When you run a small business or a small team, finding the best employees early on is extremely crucial to your success. You need to be able to add as many A-players to your team as possible if you want to scale quickly and effectively. But finding those obvious A-Players is not always easy for two possible reasons: 1) They either already have a job. 2) They are running their own operation.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. (Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) There’s one big thing holding tech leaders back from confronting pay inequality: fear, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Whenever he meets up with other CEOs in the business or tech world, he likes to ask them what they are doing to equalize pay between men and women employees.

Shutterstock Leadership is one of the most crucial factors in determining whether a school is effective or not, but of the five types of school leaders, only one truly succeeds. Researchers have identified five distinct types of school principal, based on their approach to leadership and how they behave in post. But while school leaders are feted for their achievements, it is the ones who are least rewarded who get the best results.

Shutterstock “I’m good at my job, Rebecca, really good. And I want to stay here. I just want to be happier in it.” A coaching client recently defined what so many of us experience. We work really hard to get ahead in our careers and yet so often, even when we get to the “dream job” we can catch ourselves being busy but not really enjoying our day, every day.

Antsy Labs’ Matthew and Mark McLachlan raised $6.1 million for a vinyl desk on Kickstarter. Says Matthew (on the left): “In the days leading up to our launch, we had no idea if we were completely off base.” (Photo courtesy of Antsy Labs) Every once in a while, a Kickstarter campaign goes crazy. Case in point: Matthew and Mark McLachlan’s campaign for the Fidget Cube, a vinyl desk toy, that launched at the end of August.

Shutterstock Here’s something not everyone knows: Applicant tracking systems (ATS) are used by most companies today. As the CEO of a company that has seen more than one million resumes grace its site, I spend a lot of time digging into best practices. So if you’ve never heard of them before or really understood what they do, let me explain real fast.