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You might’ve heard that if you just work hard, you’ll eventually be rewarded for it. But success seldom comes that easily, says leadership and career development expert Jeffrey Pfeffer.Young people especially often think that “if they do a good job, someone will notice, which they may or may not,” says Pfeffer, a 16-time author, MasterClass instructor and longtime Stanford University organizational behavior professor. “That hard work will speak for itself … [and] if you keep your head down and play by the rules, you’ll succeed.”But keeping your head down just gets you overlooked, and the most successful employees boldly differentiate…

Sep 18, 2025, 12:34 PM ETSpain and Lamine Yamal took top spot from Argentina and Lionel Messi in the FIFA men’s rankings published on Thursday, and lead for the first time since being dethroned as world champions in June 2014.Spain’s two-win start to a 2026 World Cup qualifying group this month — against Turkey and Bulgaria — lifted the European champions up from second place behind 2022 World Cup winners Argentina, who fell to third.Argentina’s loss in a World Cup qualifier in Ecuador also let France rise one place to No. 2.- Hunter: Can anyone stop Yamal and Spain marching…

Sept. 12-18, 2025 This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Eloy Martin, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week. Two Yemeni men inspect the rubble of a house that was destroyed in Wednesday’s Israeli airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman) Two Yemeni men inspect the rubble of a house that was destroyed in Wednesday’s Israeli airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)Read More President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend their visit to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle,…

Sonia Bompastor has declared Sam Kerr is “officially back” but has urged patience after the striker made a goalscoring return at the weekend.Kerr came off the bench to tap home Chelsea’s third late on in the 3-1 win over Aston Villa – for her first goal in 634 days, after around two years of injury hell. “Sam has been great,” Bompastor said ahead of Chelsea’s next Women’s Super League game at home to Leicester, live on Sky Sports on Sunday.”I think she’s been smiling from last Sunday which is really nice to see. But again it was a relief moment…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw will retire at the end of this season, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Thursday.The 37-year-old left-hander who got his 3,000th strikeout in July will make his final regular-season start at Dodger Stadium on Friday night against the San Francisco Giants. The 11-time All-Star and 2014 NL MVP is in his 18th major league season, all with the Dodgers, which ties him with Zack Wheat and Bill Russell for the most years in franchise history. Kershaw won World Series championships in 2020 and 2024. “On behalf of the Dodgers, I…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two ABC affiliate owners spoke out against late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel ahead of ABC’s decision to suspend the presenter over comments he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Their comments highlight the influence local TV station owners have on national broadcasters such as Disney-owned ABC. Here are key facts about the two companies. Nexstar Media GroupNexstar Media Group, based in Irving, Texas, operates 28 ABC affiliates. It said it would pull Kimmel’s show starting Wednesday. Kimmel’s comments about Kirk’s death were “offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The first time Denys’s children heard fireworks go off in Spokane, Washington, they were terrified. His kids had grown up about 20 miles from the Russian border, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, and they knew too well the booms of Russian missile attacks and screeching sounds of Ukrainian air defenses. In 2023, after Russians attacked the hospital where his youngest daughter, Olivia, had recently been born, Denys knew he needed a way out, and fast. That’s when a former neighbor, living in an American city on the other side of the world, offered him an…

Netskope jumped more than 18% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, pushing the cybersecurity firm to $8.6 billion in market value.The stock debuted at $23 under the ticker symbol “NTSK,” after Netskope sold shares at $19 on Wednesday at the top end of its recently upped pricing range. The sale raised over $908 million.CEO and co-founder Sanjay Beri said in an interview with CNBC ahead of the first trade that the offering was more than 20 times oversubscribed. Netskope aims to help companies protect their data while harnessing artificial intelligence tools.”The world is moving to AI and cloud,” he said.…

Property taxes aren’t usually the biggest part of a monthly housing bill, but they’ve become a growing strain on household budgets.Homeowners are paying 27.4% more in property taxes than they did in 2019, CoreLogic data from 2024 shows. That may help explain why 67% of homeowners who budgeted for taxes said their bill came in higher than expected this year, according to a March survey by Ownwell.Property taxes were also the most-cited underestimated cost among Gen Z homeowners, according to a recent Insurify poll.Together, this data suggests that climbing property tax bills are making it harder for homeowners to plan…

While working as a teacher in Atlanta, Georgia, Lexi Smith, 24, found herself dreaming of seeing more of the world and living a simpler life.”I wasn’t quite loving the school system from having an overbearing administration that didn’t appreciate me to having a hard time living on my salary,” Smith tells CNBC Make It. “When I found out that I could teach abroad for a much easier life and the ability to see more culture, I had to jump on it.”Smith started looking into the possibility of going abroad to teach English and worked with a company called Xplore Asia,…