The digital sign at the Lucky Corner Convenience Store in Somerville, Mass.. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) In what might be the most contentious presidential campaign season in recent memory, passions are running high, millions feel it’s do-or-die — and your choice of candidate can provoke a lively conversation with your customers, or stop it dead. Possibly for good. I live in a small town near New York City and have been happily shopping at a local store for decades.

Shutterstock Being invited to serve on a board is a coveted position. It requires thought and planning to become a valued member of any board. It’s not enough to assume that you’re qualified and ready. It’s critical that you take smart steps to develop your resources and skills into assets that will showcase your credentials and position you for success.

Credit: Shutterstock There’s something about Mary…just not in a good way. Every day, she arrives at work on time to get cracking on the day’s agenda. She gets along with her coworkers and performs pretty well on assignments. She even stays late on days when she needs to do some catching up. But unfortunately, come review time, Mary’s stats are not too stellar. She gets things done—but often a little late.

Dear Liz, I worked in one company for seventeen years and then I held my next job for eight years. I did well in both firms and left my last job at a VP level with a $218K compensation package. Now that I’m job-hunting again, I’m having a frustrating time. I have huge experience by now so I don’t think that a lack of competence or subject-matter expertise is in my way. I get a lot of first interviews but so far I haven’t been invited back for a second interview.

Pexels.com Although we might want to, we can’t be all things to all people, and that means the modern millennial professional needs to know when to say “no.” Our work lives are demanding enough as it is without our “yes man” complex getting in the way of things. Short version: it’s not only okay to say “no” in the office —but it’s also to be expected.

Big data and IoT are transforming how wars are being fought. Technology is changing not just how we engage with our enemies but also the fronts on which we will engage them. It’s also potentially promising to help bring about world peace. Autonomous fighters Autonomous stealth drones such as the Taranis produced by BAE Systems change the way traditional wars are fought.

By Matthew Herper and Michela Tindera On Mar. 25, 2016 Sarah Fuller, 32, was supposed to drop her mother’s car at the shop. Her mom called at 8 a.m. to make sure her daughter was up. She got Sarah’s fiancé. He found Sarah in her room, motionless, with her face on the floor. She was dead.

John Stumpf, chairman and CEO of the Wells Fargo (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Today’s leadership lesson will start with an extremely brief summary of the Wells Fargo scandal: Beginning in 2011, Wells Fargo employees created about 1.5 million phony accounts and another half-million phony credit card accounts for the bank’s existing customers, charging those customers fees for accounts they didn’t know they had.

This year, there were two paths to making it onto The Forbes 400 before your 40th birthday: Start a successful tech company, or inherit a fortune from your family. The 14 youngest billionaires on The Forbes 400 are a rarefied group, making up just 3.5% of list. Nine of these 14 folks under 40 are tech entrepreneurs; the rest inherited their fortunes.

We don’t know our own habits. Other people have to tell us about them. I worked with a woman who could not let anyone around her finish a sentence. We will call her Beth. Beth had a nervous habit that drove her co-workers crazy. Whenever anyone spoke to Beth, she cut them off. She couldn’t help it. Here’s how her conversations went: Jorge, Beth’s Colleague: So Beth, the report looks good but we still have to add a pie chart showing sales by region.