Many companies have found success with a "flow-to-work" model that assigns employees to tasks based on their skills and the priority of the work. There must be common agreement on the goals, metrics and roles involved for such an approach to succeed.

A more effective method of recharging and regaining energy starts with not just stopping activity, but also creating time and space to reflect, writes Dan Oestreich. "Reignition isn't mindless passion; it's mindful passion," he writes.

Our differences create contrast, which creates room for new ideas if we let it, writes Steve McKee. "One way to describe creativity itself is the combination of previously unrelated ideas, and a great way to generate unrelated ideas is to put unrelated people in close proximity to one another," he writes.

How billionaires amass and maintain their wealth can often be traced to certain personality traits. This article highlights a handful of those traits and you will find them familiar. What's interesting is that some of the uber wealthy are able to leverage those traits in ways that benefit the rest of society, but others don't quite have the "right stuff" to make their wealth work for others.

Employers created 374,000 jobs in August, according to data from ADP. While an improvement on the 326,000 new jobs recorded in July, it falls significantly short of estimates from Dow Jones and other economists.

The thought of household chores might put some pep in your step if trekking around your home also meant generating renewable energy to power LED lights and small electronics. If you have wooden floors, the idea could become reality soon thanks to new nanogenerator technology from a team in Switzerland that taps into wood's triboelectric properties.