Make a conscious effort to be brief, clear and thoughtful in your business communications, and don't forget a touch of humor when it's appropriate, writes Jason Hennessey, CEO of Hennessey Digital. "Remember: Your communication goals shouldn't be to shut down dialogue, but to push it forward toward a resolution faster," he writes.

A leader knows how a company is structured, but do co-workers know the company's goals and competition? "Good ideas can come from anywhere -- and from anyone. But they don't come out of nowhere ... they come from people who can see the big picture," writes Gorick Ng, career adviser at Harvard College.

A Leadership IQ test taken by more than 1 million people reveals that 64% of HR leaders are "Diplomats" and 21% are "Stewards" while 51% of HR employees want an "Idealist" leader. "Too many HR leaders focus on making their people happy at the expense of challenging them to stretch, learn, and grow," explains Leadership IQ CEO Mark Murphy, who notes, "the majority of your employees don't want to be coddled."

A rule that lets companies more easily classify gig workers as independent contractors, rather than employees, has been withdrawn by the Labor Department. The department says the rule conflicts with the Fair Labor Standards Act, which covers compensation requirements, among other provisions.

Jobs added in March exceeded 900,000, and economists surveyed by Reuters say 1 million more likely were added in April. However, the National Bureau of Economic Research has yet to declare the US officially out of a recession, despite data indicating the fastest economic growth in about four decades.

Registered dietitian nutritionist Richelle Rada said stress eating can lead to the brain to create a connection between eating food and feeling good, which may be difficult to break. For those who often turn to stress eating, she recommends trying non-food-related ways to deal with stress, such as exercising, meditating, journaling and asking for professional help, and says consistency and persistence are key to success.

For the first time in the US, genetically modified male mosquitoes were released in the Florida Keys in hopes of reducing the number of disease-carrying mosquitoes in the area. Once the males mate with females, there isn't any impact on male offspring, but female offspring will die before reaching maturity. Only female mosquitoes feast on humans -- males only dine on nectar.