The pandemic has accelerated transformation and employers must embrace "change agility" to set their business up for success, Josh Bersin writes. Bersin explains that change agility is "about human-centered leadership, building a strong culture of purpose, taking care of your people, and creating a design discipline of 'micro-nudges' and stories that bring people to the new world."

Leaders need to have a personal connection to the organization's goals and mission before they can successfully help employees discover purpose and meaning, writes Dana Theus. She offers a seven-step guide that eschews shortcuts and is deliberately "going slow to go fast on life and career purpose."

Before making a career change, consider the impact on your tax situation and your budget, and think about insurance and other benefits that you might be receiving from your current employer.

To determine who is a good fit for the staff, leaders must first understand the culture of their organization. Guy Gage, founder of the consulting firm PartnersCoach in West Virginia, says in a hierarchical culture that values processes and procedures, a worker's suggestions for improvement may be viewed as criticism, not as opportunities.

Leaders of projects or innovation teams need the courage to recognize projects that no longer have a purpose and take up valuable resources, even when doing so will disappoint people, writes Nick Skillicorn, CEO at Improvides Innovation Consulting. "If you encounter this, you can show them how by removing wasted resources from these underperforming projects, they can instead accelerate the delivery of other projects that will add even more value to them," Skillicorn writes.

High stress levels are associated with greater levels of cortisol in the body, and having chronically high levels of this hormone can have harmful effects on the body such as weight gain and a weakened immune response. Certain foods can help reduce cortisol levels, including cloves, citrus fruits, green tea and potassium-rich foods such as broccoli and bananas.

Did you know there is a medical treatment that involved taking stool from a healthy donor and placing it inside another person? The procedure, usually performed via colonoscopy, helps people suffering from repeat infections of a specific diarrhea-causing bacterium. Thankfully, those suffering from this ailment might soon be able to skip the colonoscopy and just take a pill.