Finding your purpose is easier if you know it's not the same as your passion, you recognize that it doesn't need to be unique and you understand that it comes from within, writes Gregg Vanourek. "The point is living a life that lights us up and [brings] good things to those around us," Vanourek writes.

Reading and responding to every email can be stressful and can potentially take time away from other work. Tips for managing email include establishing boundaries for when you check your inbox and setting expectations for senders in an email signature.

Employees are more likely to stay with your company if they know what's expected of them, have a chance for career growth and feel like they belong, writes Liz Kofman-Burns, co-founder of the DEI firm Peoplism. "Research shows that organizations actually benefit most when learning opportunities are democratized and given to those employees that are least likely to be on leadership's radar, including underrepresented employees," Kofman-Burns writes.

Talent leaders should consider both individual and organizational factors when identifying high-potential talent, writes talent management professional Mohamed Ameen. "Unfortunately, most HiPo interventions focus on individual career success -- 'potential to move up two roles in five years' is a common definition -- but the ability to advance one's own career does not guarantee that one will make a crucial contribution to the organization," writes Ameen.

A new resource from the Packaging & Processing Women's Leadership Network and the OpX Leadership Network is intended to help attract more women to manufacturing by giving them the tools to leverage opportunities, identify workplace challenges and matriculate through a career. "Whether it's fighting for pay parity or a promotion, it's important for women to leverage some basic skillsets that will help them maneuver this male-dominated industry," says Stephanie Neil, editor-in-chief of OEM Magazine.

Change management has become "a way of life" that requires a culture of change aimed at thriving, and no two companies will approach it the same way, write Frank Hopson and Izabela Rak of Fortuna Advisors. "Over time, the industry leaders will be the companies that cultivate a culture of change and prepare not just to survive, but to thrive," they write.

There has been widespread speculation that Wordle became harder once the game was acquired by the New York Times. That may actually be the case now that NYT has appointed Tracy Bennett from its puzzles team to edit Wordle. Bennett says editing Wordle consumes between 30 minutes and an hour of each day, but that doesn't mean it's easy. A big part of the job is ensuring lexical and semantic diversity and that no word with a potentially offensive secondary meaning makes it into the game.