Dan Ariely  (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Burda Media) It might seem obvious why a boss who lies and cheats shouldn’t be appealing…until their lying and cheating benefits us in some way. Suddenly, our tolerance for otherwise inexcusable behavior increases while our moral compass flexes. But such compromise comes with hidden costs.

Dear Liz, I am facing a leadership challenge and I’m not sure how to handle it. I’m also kicking myself, because I think I hired the wrong person for a job opening in my department, even though I interviewed six candidates and at the time I extended the job offer, I was certain I chose the right person for the job. The position is a staff job that works closely with the line managers in our company.

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I don’t remember much from the time I spent working for bad bosses except the feeling “I can’t wait until I don’t work for this person anymore.” I was too young and inexperienced to realize that working for a bad boss is only painful if you take the bad boss seriously. Of course, it is your lousy boss’s fondest hope that you will take him or her very seriously, but just because your boss wants you to be afraid of them doesn’t mean you have to do it.

The BlackBerry Priv, which CEO John Chen is pictured holding, was introduced just last year. (Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg) BlackBerry has finally thrown in the towel and will no longer design and build its own phones in-house. The Canadian company, which has faced an onslaught of competition from Apple, Samsung and other smartphone makers, will start outsourcing the production of its phones to outside partners, it said on Wednesday.

Hearing our inner voice requires solitude and community (Photo: Shutterstock) Career transitions are hard to navigate. My friend is considering a move into startups and through a family connection he arranged informational interviews with several founders. One by one they all said they needed developers and salespeople – neither of which he’s done before. He roundly dismissed sales, which surprised me.

One of the largest criticisms of the millennial generation is their obsession with social media and its resulting distraction in the workplace. However, if millennials are wise, they can leverage their aptitude on social media to advance their careers. Recently I heard from Russ Fradin, CEO and Co-Founder of Dynamic Signal, a communication platform company, about the five ways millennials can use social media to get ahead in the workplace.

The robot revolution now means that more and more companies bring their manufacturing back to the U.S., Europe or wherever they are based. But that doesn’t necessarily mean bringing millions of jobs back with them. Sportswear company Aadidas recently produced their first pair of shoes from a new, highly automated factory in Germany and announced plans for another similar factory in Atlanta to be up and running by the end of 2017.

Shutterstock As we move into the fourth quarter and end of the year, it is performance review time at many companies. Even if your company already has a specific structure for its performance reviews, you want to design your own agenda – you will always be your own strongest career advocate. Here are nine items you want to cover in your year-end performance review: 1.

Last year some 1 million students came from foreign countries to study in the U.S., making it the global powerhouse in higher education. It’s not hard to see why. American colleges and universities have minted scores of billionaires, Nobel Prize winners, game-changing entrepreneurs and celebrated leaders in politics, the arts, science, business and more. The global brand value of institutions such as Stanford, Harvard and MIT rivals that of Apple, Google and Microsoft.