A promotion can be intimidating, especially a leap into a subject matter that is not second-nature, so start by creating a plan to read about the subject as well as schedule calls with employees who can walk you through the information. "You'll never know as much as the subject experts, but those experts will learn and benefit from the unique value you bring through subject-agnostic skills," writes CEO coach Sabina Nawaz.

Failing to recognize people who are quietly doing good work increases the risk you'll lose them, which means less productive output, less cohesive teams and less motivated staff, writes Joel Garfinkle. "Finding and recognizing your hidden leaders will ensure you maximize the perspectives at the table and improve retention by acknowledging the historically undervalued," he writes.

Be careful about what you include in your job application, particularly if asked about hobbies, because you would be surprised what some applicants find appropriate. "The fact that Kardashians was even mentioned once in about 100K resumes is astonishing." writes Kathy Morris of Zippia, which looked at 3.5 million resumes.

The "exceptional" level of compensation information technology professionals have enjoyed since the dot-com boom of the 1990s is not so exceptional anymore. The wage gap has closed to the point where high-paying IT jobs are now about the location of the job and not the duties performed.

Target will pay $200 bonuses to all 350,000 of its hourly employees at stores, distribution centers and contact centers, including seasonal staffers. The retailer raised its hourly minimum wage to $15 in July and the $70 million it will spend on the new round of bonuses brings the total it has spent on investments in workers since the start of the pandemic to almost $1 billion.

Always feeling the need to help others can lead to compassion fatigue, but employing stress-reduction techniques can help mitigate overwhelm. Small acts of kindness rather than grand gestures and changing perspective to gain psychological distance from the issue can restore the capacity for empathy, write social work professor Kelsey Crowe and psychologist Juli Fraga.

Concerns about possibly disturbing human remains could scuttle an effort to retrieve the Marconi wireless telegraph that went down with the Titanic. "Fifteen hundred people died in that wreck," said Paul Johnston of the National Museum of American History. "You can't possibly tell me that some human remains aren't buried deep somewhere where there are no currents."