Great leaders should be respected for the way they went about achieving results, rather than judging outcomes alone, writes Activate Group CEO Howard Shore in this book excerpt. "The beautiful thing is that we can choose whether we want to have integrity, be respectful, have humility, be consistent, be influential -- or not," he writes.

To get your resume past an applicant tracking system, use a highlighter to pinpoint words in the job description that you need to include in your application, suggests Yaffa Grace, founder of The Essential Resume. Then take those exact words and craft your job experience to demonstrate how you exemplify those words.

Companies including Google, Salesforce, Microsoft and Walmart have been investing in digital learning and certificate programs to bridge the skills gap between higher education and employment. Benefits, beyond boosting the right skills knowledge, include democratized learning across companies, increased diversity, and the emergence of employee online communities, employers and learning companies say.

Despite the financial strain of the coronavirus pandemic, many managers indicate they are still willing to negotiate salaries with hires, according to a survey by Robert Half. This article offers four tips for new employees to optimize compensation.

Benefits experts say this open enrollment season employees are interested in critical illness and disability insurance, financial wellness, paid leave, and child care. "What we have seen from companies at this point is that benefits like mental health, child care and paid leave are coming more into focus for this open enrollment season, with each of these being tied to the issues being raised by the pandemic," said Kathy Barber at Ayco.

Total gross domestic product (GDP) in the US shrank by more than $2 trillion between Q1 and Q2 of this year. This infographic offers a state-by-state and industry-by-industry look at the areas and businesses that were hit the hardest.

Have you always assumed sound traveled at one set speed? It turns out sound travels at different speeds, and scientists have identified the two dimensionless fundamental constants that help determine the maximum speed of a sound: the fine structure constant and the proton-to-electron mass ratio. So much for that whole "about one mile in five seconds" rule of thumb.