When unexpected blips cause disruption in your leadership career, it's time to brainstorm about your options, consult with trusted advisers and pursue opportunities that align with your values, writes Terri Klass. "Don't forget to include an abundance of exciting goals that bring you joy as well as stretch your leadership," Klass writes.

It's the responsibility of everyone -- employees, managers and CEOs -- to begin the difficult conversation around "quiet quitting" and find a direction forward together, writes Marlene Chism. Chism offers 10 questions those at every level should consider, including queries about how performance is defined and measured and whether employees feel like they have a voice within the company.

Promotions should go to employees who will thrive in new roles, not to those who are succeeding in current positions, according to Gallup research. Technically's CEO, Christopher Wink, recommends building an individual contributor track that rewards workers with money, authority and influence instead of promotions.

Employees are more likely to warm to the concept of returning to the office if they have time to adjust to the idea, have some manner of input and know leaders will reevaluate the experiment at some point and make adjustments, according to Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University professors David Schonthal and Loran Nordgren. "People tend to be more willing to say yes to an unfamiliar idea when it doesn't feel like they're committing to it indefinitely," Schonthal says.

The upcoming National Manufacturing Week -- Oct. 7 to 14 -- offers a built-in opportunity for manufacturers to speak with parents, help create high-school-to-career paths and upskill current workers to help build a more robust workforce, writes Pascal Bradu, plant manager at PPG Huntsville in Alabama. More than 70% of manufacturers are struggling to hire skilled workers, according to the National Association of Manufacturers, but the good news of strong forecasts for wage growth, production and sales can be draws.

Now that California and several other states have adopted laws requiring employers to post salary information on job advertisements in an effort to close gender and racial pay gaps, employers will need to update job descriptions and, in some cases, conduct a pay audit, HR leaders and other executives say. "I don't think it's going to be the end of the world, but employers are not going to like it mostly because it's going to reveal areas where they don't have a plan or system," says Kara Govro, senior legal analyst at Mineral.

Remember back in 2014 when people were dumping buckets of ice on their heads all in the name of raising funds to fight ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease? Well, $2.2 million of those funds was used for the development and trial of Relyvrio, a drug that was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. While it seems like the success of the Ice Bucket Challenge should be celebrated, additional details make the story a bit more complex.