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Shutterstock ‘Tis the season for the public relations exercise known as “here’s what we think (or hope) will happen in the tech sector next year,” flooding my inbox with predictions for 2017. No one knows what will happen tomorrow, let alone over the next 12 months, but the exercise yields interesting insights into what’s hot (and what’s not) in technology today.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I got transferred along with my department into a new group several months ago. We do the same work we always did, but we report into a new cost center now. We have a new manager. Part of my job is to approve expense reports for our department. I don’t travel or have any business expenses myself, but several of my teammates do. Here’s the bad part. My new boss is stealing money through his expense reports.

Given the right circumstances, good people can get caught up in some bad things. More often than not, psychology is to blame. When it comes to sketchy behavior, good people don’t tend to go right off the deep end like Bernie Madoff or Kenneth Lay. Rather, the mind plays tricks on them, pushing them down the slippery slope of questionable behavior. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” –C. S.

President-elect Donald Trump is beefing uphis cadre of CEO-advisors: the incoming commander-in-chief said Wednesday that he is adding three more of America’s most prominent chief executives toan economic forum dedicated to job creation and productivity.

It’s that time of year again, when many managers work through the ritual of company-required employee performance appraisals and then will meet individually with each employee in January to discuss their 2016 accomplishments. But if your budget hasn’t been increased for 2017, what can you do to motivate those on your team (and stay motivated yourself)? Try these six tips. Shutterstock Help employees develop their careers.

Katrin Zimmermann When Katrin Zimmermann worked her way up from a flight attendant to an executive assistant at Lufthansa, one thing became painfully obvious: the airline was dependent on outside vendors for all its digital innovation strategy. “No one was really getting at it from inside the organization.

Tina Fordham, Citi’s Political Analyst, Courtesy Citigroup Tina Fordham is a true trailblazer. She has the distinction of being the first person to hold the title of Managing Director, Chief Global Political Analyst at Citi Research Citigroup. Until she persuaded Citi that they needed to create such a role and slot her in it, there wasn’t anyone providing real-time analysis on the impact that global political events can have on financial markets.

Image: Apple After revolutionizing headphones by removing the 3.5mm jack, Apple has finally made its coveted AirPods available to buy online. The AirPods were announced alongside the iPhone 7 back in September but saw a delayed release. Apparently Apple was having trouble getting them to work, hence the delay. So, how much do these bad boys cost again? One hundred and fifty-nine dollars. I had to type that out instead of just the number because it needs to be read to be believed.

A script can be a useful tool as you develop your strategy for an upcoming conversation at work or on your job search. My boss Jon used to say”You have to plan out every negotiation, imagining how the discussion might go and deciding in advance how you will navigate if you hear something unexpected. You have to be ready!” Here is a script illustrating Caroline’s job offer negotiation.

Datacenters, especially the really big guys known as the Super 7 (Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Tencent), are experiencing significant growth in key workloads that require more performance than can squeezed out of even the fastest CPUs.

Hospitals in Paris are trialling Big Data and machine learning systems designed to forecast admission rates – leading to more efficient deployment of resources and better patient outcomes. It’s just one more way in which cutting-edge data science is being applied to real-world problems in healthcare, along with creating personalized medicines, fighting cancer and streamlining pharmaceutical trials.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I have a problem at work. I was hired as mycompany’s first Social Media Specialist, 18 months ago. It was a great assignment to get because my company had never done anythingwith social media before. I got us up and running and started to integrate our social strategy with our traditional marketing efforts. Things aregoing really well. Watch on Forbes: My boss “John” is the Marketing Director.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I appreciate your observations about howisolating it is to job-huntby yourself at home. I feel that same sense of isolation, but I am working! I’m the first HR Manager at a growing professional services firm. My CEO founded the company and I have great respect for him. He is an expert in his field but he is not tuned in to our team. Watch on Forbes: That’s why he hired me.

Shutterstock We are getting smarter as a species and realizing that leadership is completely different from command-and-control supervision. Supervision is expensive, but leadership is very cheap. When trust flows in an organization, you don’t have to spy on your employees. You don’t have measure every breath they take and every keystroke they make.

Shutterstock If you’re one of the 26% of Americans who have already decided that they’ll be looking for a new job in 2017, there is no better time to lay the groundwork for making the big move than right now. Here are fourconcrete steps you can take this month to set yourself up for a smoother job hunt after January 1st. Reflect on your accomplishments from the past year.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I could use some tactical advice about how to neutralize my enemy at work. I didn’t do anything to antagonize this guy we can call Bob, but he hates me for some reason and he works hard to stab me in the back whenever he gets a chance. I have tried being very nice to him and collaborating with him. I have bent over backwards trying to be a friend to Bob, but he is still hyper-critical of me. He’s a co-worker at my level, not a supervisor.

Shutterstock Whether you’re grieving the loss of your pet, or you’re feeling discouraged about a loved one’s health condition, negotiating when you’re sad could be disastrous. Even if the reason you’re sad has nothing to do with the deal you’re attempting to make, your unrelated feelings will interfere with your ability to haggle. Although all emotions influence decision-making, studies show the worst time to negotiate is when you’re sad.

Shutterstock Dear Liz, I got laid off in 2015 and I decided to take a sabbatical, because I got a decent severance package. The sabbatical came just at the right time, but now I am finding it hard to get back into the workforce. I am starting to wonder whether my age is working against me. I am 49 but I was blessed with my dad’s hairline and I could imagine that I look older than I am.

Shutterstock As a millennial in the trenches of Corporate America, I see some of my peers become wildly successful while others desperately struggle to get promoted. Those who struggle to get promoted aren’t necessarily bad at their jobs. It’s actually the lack of professionalism and soft skills I see holding them back. If you are a millennial in a corporate job, here’s what you don’t want to do. 1.