Nate Paul, the 29-year-old founder of World Class Capital Group, recently hired five former high-level Credit Suisse real estate bankers to his firm, marking a rapid expansion of his real estate investment business.

When you’re a nice person, conflict can be a real challenge. Not that mean people are any better at conflict; they just enjoy it more. How you handle conflict determines the amount of trust, respect, and connection you have with your colleagues. Conflict typically boils down to moments when the stakes are high, emotions run strong and opinions differ. And you cannot master these moments without a high degree of emotional intelligence (EQ).

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I was invited for a job interview a month ago and I wasn’t prepared. I did a horrible job at the interview, to be honest. I didn’t know anything about the company (we’ll call them Angry Chocolates) and I hadn’t thought through the job opportunity. The interview was painful. I knew within ten minutes they weren’t going to hire me. The reason I was unprepared is that I thought I was going to get an offer from another company.

Shutterstock The talent market is changing fast, and it’s in your best interest to stay at the front edge of that wave. Working people and job-seekers have more influence than they think they have, and so do you — but only if you know it! One sign of the changing times is that the state of Massachusetts has made it unlawful for employers to ask job-seekers to report their past salaries. That law takes effect in 2018. Whether or not other U.S.

Some members of the older generations look at millennials with something like contempt. Conventional wisdom says they’re entitled, selfish and unmotivated.

Shutterstock A lateral move means you stay at your same company but you move to a different department, subsidiary or regional office. I visited a former employer, and one of the junior recruiters was now in marketing. I recently hired a sales executive who had started in marketing before moving to sales. Yet another example of a lateral move is a former coaching client of mine who moved from a creative function to HR at her same longtime company.

Over the past few years, the term “deep learning” has firmly worked its way into business language when the conversation is about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and analytics. And with good reason – it is an approach to AI which is showing great promise when it comes to developing the autonomous, self-teaching systems which are revolutionizing many industries.

Stress has always been a part of the workplace. No matter how “good” your job is and no matter how good of a boss you are, your employees will face stress on a daily basis—and that applies to businesses of any size, in any era. How your workers handle that stress (and how they respond to it) will bear a massive impact on your overall performance as an organization, so it’s on you to help them manage that stress more effectively.

“Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterward to explain that it was not possible.” – Cesar Ritz “‘When we had six or seven Hot Shoppes, I’d drive to every one of them every day, sometimes twice a day.

IBM and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer have formed a collaboration to accelerate drug discovery in “immuno-oncology” using the computer giant’s Watson artificial intelligence system to aid a potentially promising new area for cancer research. IBM’s Deborah DiSanzo made the announcement at the 2016 Forbes Healthcare Summit. Immunotherapy is an approach that uses the immune system to fight diseases, unlike chemotherapy, which kills cancer cells.