Leaders can grab control of themselves, as well as their destiny, by using thought, application and practice, according to Dale Carnegie CEO Joe Hart and "Take Command" co-author Michael Crom. Self-awareness and self-confidence are part of interacting with the self, while mastering interactions with people and creating your future come next, they say in this interview with John Baldoni.

Employees tend to either want to keep their work and personal lives apart, or thrive from mixing work and other activities during their day, work styles called "splitters" and "blenders," writes Julia Lyons-Ryle, a human resources specialist with Insperity. To boost employee performance, "managers must understand each person's preference or work style," Lyons-Ryle says.

Instead of pushing people into corporate changes through compliance and policies, the best leaders pull them into it by listening to their ideas, modeling the changes themselves and aligning teams with new goals, writes Al Comeaux, the former vice president of Travelocity. "We can't have our people going in every direction and expect to lead them through a change," Comeaux writes.

Despite our differences on everything from politics to whether employees should return to the office or not, Dan Rockwell says there are five things we all want, including feeling good about ourselves and our work, forming fulfilling relationships and having the sense that our lives matter. "Leaders succeed when they help people get what they want," Rockwell notes.

Students who have student loans were more likely to experience mental and physical health issues and delay seeking care than those without loans, write Arielle Kuperberg, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Joan Maya Mazelis, associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University, who conducted a study on the topic. The findings show that student-loan debt could be contributing to the skyrocketing incidence of mental health issues on campuses because students don't have money to seek care or pay for prescriptions, they write.

Alongside "quiet quitting" and "loud quitting," some workforce trend watchers are using a new term, "grumpy staying," to describe the situation of valuable employees who want to leave their jobs but hesitate to do so because they fear a tightening labor market. Justin Hirsch of Jobplex advises employers to bolster their employee engagement and talent development efforts and benefits to counteract the trend.

After surviving colon cancer in 2011, a 73-year-old woman in Mexico City has gradually turned her apartment in to a rehabilitation clinic for orphaned and sick hummingbirds. Many of the hundreds of hummingbirds Catia Lattouf has nursed back to health over the past decade have been released in a wooded area of the city, and she buries those that don't make it in a garden.

With transmission queues and grid stability among the hottest topics in the energy sector, Terry Collier, vice president of research and development for 3M's Electrical Markets division, details technologies that can be deployed now to help get the most out of existing grid infrastructure. Collier also outlines cutting-edge innovations that help wind farms, utilities and distributed energy resources (DERs) control their costs, reduce downtime, and optimize performance.