The average American spends 38 hours a year stuck in traffic. 

It gets worse in the world's megacities: Commuters in Mexico City, Moscow, and Beijing can get stuck in traffic for hours at time. 

Natural and human events can make difficult commutes even worse, be it crippling strikes, military coups, extreme storms, or just a ridiculous number of people trying to load onto a train car. 

Read on to see incredible photos from around the world that will make you grateful for your own commute.

Alex Davies contributed to this article.

Thousands of people commute to work in Bangladesh by boat. Here, residents of Dhaka take out their umbrellas.

Others take the train.

Some seem to enjoy the ride.

Imagine that one of New York City's many islands became abandoned, and you came back to see what it looked like 50 years later. It’s hard to visualize. However, the place would likely be overgrown with vegetation, and the buildings would be crumbling.

This is exactly what happened when photographer Christopher Payne visited North Brother Island, a 13-acre island between the Bronx and Riker’s Island that's been abandoned since 1963. After it became inhabited in 1885, North Brother housed a hospital to quarantine victims of contagious disease and later provided housing to World War II veterans. It also held a treatment center for teenage drug addicts.

At its peak, the island had the look of a manicured college campus, full of green spaces, sidewalks, roads, well-kept buildings, street lamps, and fire hydrants. Visit now, Payne says, and you’ll see an island that nature has reclaimed.

“I went there hoping to find the buildings completely intact, full of old artifacts just the way people left them, but what I found was ruins,” Payne told Business Insider. “It looked like it had been abandoned for a century.”

Payne has spent six years documenting the island’s changing nature. He's collected some of the work in a book, "North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City," and Payne has shared some photos from the project with us here.

North Brother Island has been virtually undisturbed by trespassers and left to decay naturally. This is due to the island's natural isolation and its lack of a working dock for boats to land on. In the 1970s, many Bronx kids partied on the island. But after a number of boats capsized in Hell Gate, the surrounding body of water, the city stepped up patrols. People left the island alone after that.

You can only get to North Brother by taking a small boat that lands directly on the shore.  Payne got permission to visit the island by promising to ferry New York City Parks Department employees — who manage the island — to North Brother so that they could carry out various maintenance tasks.

Since it was abandoned in the 1960s, the island has become a nature reserve. New York City is located directly on bird migration routes both north and south and, as one of the few remaining green spots near the city, it has become a natural stopping place for the birds. Nobody can visit from March to September, and only a few guests are allowed on the rest of the year.

The island's longest-running function was as a quarantine facility, so most of the buildings are of a medical nature. This is the Nurses' building, where the island's resident nurses lived. The island famously housed "Typhoid Mary" Mallon, the first carrier in the United States of Typhoid fever.

When Payne visited, he expected to find the interior of the buildings mostly intact and filled with artifacts. However, he found that almost everything had been cleared out of the buildings. This classroom in the male dormitory was one of the few rooms that had anything still in it. The books are mostly cast-offs from the Queens Public Library.

This is what the male dormitory looks like on the outside. Aside from the birds, there is no wildlife on the island. Not even rats can survive because there is no food.

The largest structure is the Tuberculosis Pavilion, the lobby of which is shown here. Payne says the pavilion is the only building that could be saved structurally if the city wanted to restore the island. While in operation, the pavilion housed a fully functional medical facility, complete with x-ray machines.

This is the balcony of the Tuberculosis Pavilion. Payne usually visited the island in either September or late November because it lags seasonally behind the rest of the Northeast. In September, the island is still overflowing with greenery and, in November and December, the leaves are still changing colors.

One of the most striking aspects of the island is how it changes throughout the year, Payne says. In summer, nature consumes the buildings. In winter, it all recedes and the island becomes barren. Payne took this photo of the coal house from the roof of the morgue in September.

This is a view of the boiler plant, also taken from the morgue roof. While it's hard to imagine, Payne says that all of the nature sits over a thin layer of dirt. Below it, one can still find the sidewalks, street lamps, fire hydrants, and streets that used to define the island.

North Brother Island was more or less self-sufficient when it was in operation. It had an industrial plant and a coal house to provide utilities to the buildings and an internal telephone system. This is the collapsing roof of the boiler plant, which provided heat to the island.

Nature has demolished most of the island's buildings, like this church. "At the rate they are going, the buildings are going to disappear," says Payne, who is also trained as an architect. "Most of the buildings are so far gone it would be difficult to salvage them."

Here is another view of the church. As you can see, only the facade still stands.

Payne says he learned this lesson from his many trips to the island: "When people leave, man-made structures break down and get replaced quickly by the natural order. No matter how hard we try, nature will always reassert itself."

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This weekend, Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady will crown her successor at the widely-viewed beauty pageant owned by billionaire Donald Trump. 

Before becoming Miss USA, Brady worked an accountant. She told us last year that working as an accountant helped her prepare for the pageant. 

While some might consider pageants to be superficial, they actually help teach poise and confidence. They also help tremendously when it comes to interviewing.

What's more is being a titleholder like Miss USA is a job. It requires a lot of work. 

In honor of the upcoming event, we decided to do a little research and look up former pageant titleholders who work or have worked in financial services. We were able to find a handful of them. 

If we're missing any names of titleholders in the finance industry, feel free to send an email to jlaroche@businessinsider.com.  

Investment banker Kerrie Baylis represented Jamaica at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.

Pageant Title: Miss Universe Jamaica 2013

Finance Career: Baylis is an investment banker and portfolio advisor with BCW Capital. 

Education: University of Surrey 

Sources: LinkedIn, MissUniverse.com

Miss Ohio USA 2002 Kimberly Mullen works for Bridgewater Associates.

Pageant Title: Miss Ohio USA 2002

Finance Career: She works as a leverager at Bridgewater Associates. 

Education: Ohio State and NYU

Source: LinkedIn

Miss Singapore 2009 Rachel Kum worked as a commodities trader at a hedge fund.

Pageant Title: Miss Universe Singapore 2009

Finance Career: She apparently worked as a commodities trader at a hedge fund. She now runs her namesake cosmetics company. 

Education: University of Western Australia 

Source: LinkedIn

American malls are dying a slow, sad death, as evidenced by those gloomy photos of abandoned and decaying shopping malls.

But it's also nice to reminisce about the golden days when teens would loiter away their Saturdays shopping and families would eat together at the resident The Cheesecake Factory. 

Sravani Vadlamani, a doctoral student in transportation engineering at Arizona State, has created an animated map (first found via The Washington Post) that shows the boom of retail hubs throughout the 20th century.

Her MapStory includes every kind of mall, including strip, outlet, indoor, and outdoors. All the information is obtained from ASU GIS Spatial Data Repository, which includes data from the Directory of Major Malls. 

Check out the map below (move it to the left or zoom out to see the East Coast):

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Real estate mogul and art collector Aby Rosen has sparked a feud with his wealthy Old Westbury, N.Y., neighbors after debuting this graphic Damien Hirst statue on his front lawn.

The statue is titled “The Virgin Mother” and stands 33 feet tall. It depicts a naked pregnant woman in stride, with the right half of her skin peeled away to expose her skull, muscles, and the fetus in her womb.

Somewhat understandably, Rosen’s neighbors were not pleased when he began displaying the statue on his lawn back in May after renovating his Old Westbury Village property, according to Newsday. The complaints from neighbors reached village officials, forcing Rosen to argue to the village’s planning board this week why the statue should stay.

Rosen is also up against the village's Mayor Fred Carillo, who has introduced new legislation in response to the controversy that would limit the height of “accessory structures” — like statues — to 25 feet in height. Carillo has previously said to 1010 WINS’ Mona Rivera that the statue would be more appropriate in a medical building, “especially OBGYN.”

On Monday night, representatives for Rosen testified to the planning board that the statue not only fit with Rosen’s avant-garde estate, but also that with the proper landscaping, the statue could be screened from neighbors as much as possible. Rosen’s land-use attorney Peter MacKinnon previously stated to Newsday that the statue could be moved to a lower elevation or “pocketed into a hill” to accomplish this.

Village officials decided to reserve judgement until touring the estate, according to Newsday. The statue currently remains on Rosen’s property but is covered in a long black sheet.

"The Virgin Mother" is one of three similar statues created by Hirst, including one called "Verity" that is 67 feet tall and holds a sword above its head in Ilfracombe, Devon. Rosen purchased his statue in 2005, and it has previously been displayed at Manhattan’s Lever House.

This is not the only art-related battle Rosen is currently fighting. The real estate mogul is also being sued by the New York Landmarks Conservancy for wanting to take down the fragile Picasso curtain “Le Tricorne” (1919) from New York City’s Four Seasons Restaurant.

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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel turned 24 this week (congrats!).

In honor of his birthday, we've put together favorite selfie faces of the 60-some employees who helped build the photo messaging service.

The images are taken from a Snapchat team video, in which a handful of employees show off their go-to selfies. 

Caitlyn Czisny, a user advocate for Snapchat, makes the same face as Snapchat's logo, Ghostface Chillah.

She also makes this face with ears.

Juan David Borrero, who went to Stanford and does business development for Snapchat, makes the Ghostface Chillah face on the opposite side.

The world's largest cupcake company is crumbling. 

Crumbs Bake Shop's stock price has plunged to around 27 cents per share from a high of $14 per share in July of 2011. 

The once-hot bakery catapulted to fame thanks to a cupcake craze that swept across the U.S. in the early 2000s. Shortly after going public in 2011, however, Crumbs began losing money.

The company is now closing stores and its auditors are expressing doubt over whether Crumbs can stay in business.

Three years after Sex and the City inspired a cupcake craze, Crumbs was born.

It all started in 2000 when character Carrie Bradshaw ate a cupcake from Magnolia Bakery's West Village location. Tourists began flocking there and a "Sex and the City" tour bus made the location a destination. The cupcake craze had officially begun.

Mia and Jason Bauer, respectively a legislative counsel and a consumer product entrepreneur, were quick to jump on the trend, opening the first Crumbs on the Upper West Side in 2003.

"My expectations were very simple, and they came to fruition immediately," Mia Bauer told New York Family in 2012. "The goal was to have a neighborhood bakery where I knew everybody and their kids, and I made all their birthday cakes."

Crumbs was a huge hit.

People went crazy for Crumbs' cupcakes, and the company was able to sell its gourmet product for as much as $4.50 a pop.

In an interview with Newsweek, Jason Bauer explained why the cupcakes were such a hit.

"If you rewind to 2002, cupcakes were vanilla, chocolate, lemon, or strawberry, maybe with sprinkles," he said. "When we opened our stores, Mia created three types of cupcakes with cool fillings, frostings, and decorations. Every day they sold out, so we decided to expand that line and continued to grow it. We started making gourmet cupcakes and [that’s] what has now become the industry standard."

Crumbs' cupcakes now come in more than 75 flavors and range from the 1-inch-tall "Taste" cupcake to the 6.5-inch-tall "Colossal," which can feed up to six people.

Next came a nationwide expansion.

Crumbs started opening more shops in New York and expanded to Philadelphia, D.C., and Beverly Hills, among other cities.

But at the same time, hundreds of other cupcake bakeries opened across the U.S. Among them were Sprinkles Cupcakes, which launched in 2005; Cupcake Nouveau in 2007; and Georgetown Cupcake in 2008.

As the cupcake craze ballooned, television networks began taking notice. The Food Network started airing "Cupcake Wars" and TLC launched "DC Cupcakes," a show about Georgetown Cupcake and its owners.

What you eat all day doesn't just impact your health and weight; it affects your productivity, too.

"If you eat high fat, high sugar meals and snacks you will be sleepy and have low energy overall," says Lisa De Fazio, a healthy lifestyle expert and registered dietitian. "High fat foods take more work to digest. Candy causes sugar to spike in your blood stream then crash, and you also may have an upset stomach. Who can be productive with all of this going on?"

But, unfortunately, she says, many people tend to make bad eating decisions during the workday.

"Boredom and stress often lead to mindless snacking on things like sweets and chips,"De Fazio explains. "Also, there may be limited healthy food choices or too many temptations around the office, like candy dishes on your colleagues' desks, cupcakes for birthdays, or greasy pizza during lunch meetings." 

Time — or lack thereof — also plays a part. "One of the reasons people don't stick to their healthy eating resolutions of bringing their own homemade prepared food, rather than ordering or eating out, is because of a lack of time," explains Nicole Maftoum, a Lebanese clinical dietitian. "In a fast-paced world, fast food comes as the optimum solution."

Maftoum says sleep deprivation also affects appetite and pushes one to eat twice the amount of calories that they'd typically consume in a day.

The experts say all of these factors make it easy for us to develop bad eating habits at work — but they're terrible excuses.

Luckily, there are plenty of quick, easy, and inexpensive healthy snack options.

Almonds

Almonds are a great source of protein and healthy fat that is satisfying. "They contain nine essential nutrients; have the highest rate of proteins when compared to other nuts; have the highest rate of fiber (3.5g per 23 pieces) when compared to other nuts; are rich in Vitamin E (23 pieces provide 35% of the daily value of Vitamin E); and contain monounsaturated fats that help increase HDL levels," Maftoum says.

Low-fat popcorn

This low-calorie snack will satisfy your craving for something salty and crunchy, and it’s also a good source of fiber, De Fazio says. 

Fresh fruit

Fruits are packed with vitamins and minerals, and are full of great natural sweetness, Maftoum says. "They are also a great source of antioxidants needed for a stronger immune system and a better performance at work."

Harvard University's Houghton Library officials announced in a blog post on Wednesday that one of the books in its collection is bound with human skin.

The book in question is the French book "Des destinees de l'ame" by Arsene Houssaye, and the skin comes from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who suffered a stroke and passed away, according to a previous report by the Hougton Library researchers (via The Verge).

Harvard scientists conducted a series of tests on the binding and say they are "99 percent confident" that the skin comes from a human:

Harvard conservators and scientists tested the binding using several different methods. According to Senior Rare Book Conservator Alan Puglia, they are 99% confident that the binding is of human origin.

Microscopic samples were taken from various locations on the binding, and were analyzed by peptide mass fingerprinting, which identifies proteins to create a “peptide mass fingerprint” (PMF) allowing analysts to identify the source.

The book dates back to the 1880s and was a gift from the author Houssaye to his friend, Dr. Ludovic Bouland. It was Bouland who had the book bound with human skin. "This book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance," wrote Bouland in an autograph manuscript within the book. "By looking carefully you can easily distinguish the pores of the skin." 

Though both fascinating and revolting to modern sensibilities, binding books in human skin has occurred at least since the 16th century and Houghton Library staff members even describe as "somewhat common." It even has a name — anthropodermic bibliopegy.

Plus, the binding is oddly appropriate given that the book's subject matter is "a meditation on the soul and life after death."

This is the only book in Harvard's library that is known to be made of human skin, though there were past speculations by The Harvard Crimson in 2006 that a 17th century book owned by Harvard Law School was bound with the flesh of a man who was “flayed alive.” The book later proved to be bound in sheepskin.

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With a wingspan longer than Boeing's 747 jumbo jet, the Solar Impulse 2 took off from its home base in Switzerland on its maiden flight this week. First unveiled to the public in April, the solar-powered craft is set to attempt an around-the-world flight next year. 

The Solar Impulse 2 took 50 engineers, 80 technological partners, and 100 technical advisors 12 years to conceptualize, design, and build. All of their work culminated in this week's two hour-long test flight. 

The Solar Impulse 2 draws power from 17,200 solar cells.

Wing-mounted solar cells power the craft's 4 electric motors.

With drive going through 4 propellers, the craft can reach a top speed of 87 mph.

The median price for an existing home in the United States is $211,000, according to the National Association of Realtors. However, these twelve homes blow this average away with price tags in the high millions. 

With the help of Zillow, we've put together a list of the most expensive homes currently on the market in the U.S. They range from penthouse apartments to sprawling estates, and each has amenities that most people can only dream about.

All of the homes are located in either New York or California, which is unsurprising as both are in the top 10 most expensive states in America.

Paige Cooperstein contributed to this story.

#12 A real estate tycoon is selling this ornate California mansion.

Address: Bradbury, Calif.

Price: $68.8 million

The majestic Bradbury Estate is made of mostly French Limestone and took more than eight years of careful construction to build. The home has a two-story library, a 3D theater, a 2,000-bottle wine cellar, a 10-car garage, and a pool.

Owner Don G. Abbey of the real estate firm Abbey Company chopped the price on the home from $78.8 million to $68.8 million when it failed to sell after a year on the market.

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#11 This giant Hamptons mansion was recently renovated.

Address: Water Mill, N.Y.

Price: $69 million

This waterfront estate features a 22,000-square-foot mansion as well as a carriage house and a gatehouse. The property was completely restored by well-known designers and architects, giving it up-to-date touches while retaining its 20th century charm.

#10 Here's a swanky duplex with hotel amenities.

Address:New York, N.Y.

Price: $70 million

This 16-room duplex apartment is located in the swanky hotel The Pierre and features a beautiful dining room and a spacious corner living room. Amenities also include concierge service, housekeeping, and gym access.

Every war has events where the tide changes, turning points where the conflict's endgame comes into focus.

That moment for the Second World War's European theater was June 6, 1944 — the day Allied forces crossed the English Channel and began to reclaim the European mainland.

Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.

Here are images that bring to life one of the most consequential military operations in modern history.

It was overcast and foggy on June 6, 1944, when 160,000 troops landed on this French coastline.

Beaches along a 50-mile stretch of coastline in Normandy were given five names — Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. German troops heavily defended each of them.

Cloud cover prevented Allied bombers from accurately targeting the German forces and softening up their defenses.

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen lives a pretty fabulous life. With a net worth of more than $16 billion, he's the 57th wealthiest man in the world, and he has the fancy yachts, planes, and lifestyle to prove it.

Allen also collects a ridiculous amount of properties across the globe. 

From a hilltop mansion on the French Riviera to an entire island off the coast of Washington, Allen has made his fair share of blockbuster purchases over the years.

Allen's primary residence is a 10,000-square-foot waterfront home on Mercer Island, a ritzy enclave of Seattle. He owns a total of nine mansions on the island, including one that's just for his mother and another that houses a full-size basketball court, swimming pool, and fitness center.

Source: Curbed Seattle, The Real Estalker

He bought Allan Island, off the coast of Washington, in 1992. Though he initially had plans to build a dream home on the island, its secluded nature and lack of electricity made construction difficult. He sold the island last year for a discounted $8 million.

Source: Curbed Seattle

In 1993, Allen purchased a former sheep ranch in Tetonia, Idaho. For years, the property operated as the Teton Ridge Ranch, a five-suite luxury mountain lodge. It closed for business in 2009.

Source: The Real Estalker

The summer movie season has officially begun, which means you, the moviegoer, will be forced to make some tough decisions over the next three months: Do you go see the new Seth Rogen raunch-comedy or the latest superhero blockbuster? Are you more in the mood for transforming robots or evolved apes? A cackling Angelina Jolie or a riotous Melissa McCarthy? Channing Tatum's bulging pectorals or Dwayne Johnson's bulging pectorals?

Naturally, we have your back when it comes to breaking down the big-budget blockbusters and big-name studio releases that will be taking over your multiplexes from Memorial Day until Labor Day — but what if you're looking for something besides the latest pop-franchise installment or A-list star vehicle to see?

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Man can not live on cheeseburgers alone, and the same goes for the movies: occasionally, you crave something without giant lizards and blue-skinned mutants.

So we've put together a list of 20 off-the-beaten-path films coming out between now and the end of August that will satisfy your alternative-viewing needs — the documentaries, indies, foreign-language flicks and a few straight-up unclassifiable projects that will also be coming to a theater near you soon. Some have recognizable names attached, while others are the cinematic equivalent of a blind date. All of them will offer you a break from the blockbuster blues.

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'Night Moves' (May 30)

A young environmentalist ("The Social Network's" Jesse Eisenberg) and his female companion (Dakota Fanning) meet up with a reclusive, off-the-grid ex-Marine (Peter Sarsgaard).

Identities are assigned, "ingredients" are procured, maps are consulted regarding some sort of locale — but what exactly is their goal here? Anyone familiar with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt's work ("Wendy and Lucy,""Meek's Cutoff") knows to expect atmosphere over easy answers, but the bigger questions she brings up in this slowburn thriller — at what point does activism become terrorism? Do the ends always justify the means? — leave a banquet's worth of food for thought.

Watch the trailer.

'We Are the Best' (May 30)

'Borgman' (June 6)

Have you heard the one about the vagrant who enters a well-to-do family's ecosphere and completely changes everyone's lives? Of course you have — Dutch filmmaker Alex van Warmerdam is banking on the fact that people know this narrative, all the better to f--- with audiences' heads.

After the titular character (played by Belgian actor Jan Bijvoet, in a star-making turn) shows up, bearded and filthy, on the doorstep of an upper-middle-class couple, you expect a certain amount of uncomfortability. Instead, you get a bona fide creepfest and the kind of assault on bourgeois values that would make Buñuel beam. Unless Michael Haneke releases a film in the next six months, this will be the feel-bad movie of the year.

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It's that time of the year again when Wall Street starts leaving the trading floor for the golf course. 

We combed through the latest handicap data of some of the Street's biggest names on GHIN—a website run by the U.S. Golf Association— to see how they stack up against each other on the fairway.

Some of these golfers are very, very talented, while others could use a bit more practice. Take Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein for instance. He seems to find shooting low scores a difficult endeavor.

Keep in mind, the higher the handicap number, the worse the player is in comparison to others with lower handicaps.

Also, JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon doesn't golf. His two predecessors at JPMorgan were members of the prestigious Augusta National Golf Club though. 

Lloyd Blankfein (Handicap: 23.4)

Firm/Title: Goldman Sachs, CEO 

Where He's Played: Blind Brook Club, East Hampton Golf Club, Sebonack Golf Club and Manhattan Woods Golf Club

Last Golf Outing: August 2013

James Gorman (Handicap: 21.6)

Firm/Title: Morgan Stanley, CEO

Where He's Played: Millbrook Golf & Tennis Club, Blind Brook Club and Winged Foot Golf Club.

Last Golf Outing: May 2014

Source: GHIN

David Tepper (Handicap: 18.5)

Firm/Title: Appaloosa Management/founder

Where He's Played: Crestmont Country Club

Last Golf Outing: May 2014

Source: GHIN

In 2007, photographer Adrain Chesser went to a traditional Native American ceremony called the Naraya when he was having a tough time in the wake of his mother's death.

While there, Chesser became acquainted with Finisia Medrano and J.P. Hartsong, who both lived as hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin, a part of the United States encompassing parts of Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and California.

“When I heard they were living this wild and free existence, my head exploded,” Chesser told me.

Chesser moved to Seattle so he could regularly visit the duo, who had begun to gather a group of people who were also committed to living a free existence in the wild. Before long, Chesser had spent six years following and documenting them and similar groups. Chesser says the experience changed his life.

With the help of Native American ritualist Timothy White Eagle, Chesser collected the work into a new book called “The Return.” Chesser shared a number of the photos with us here, and you can see the rest in the book or at his website.

J.P. Hartsong, Finisia Madrano, and their group live nomadically and travel according to the seasons.

The group, which calls itself Coyote Camp, travels along a centuries-old Native American route known as “The Hoop” (for its circular nature) that passes through Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon.

Coyote Camp travels in accordance with the harvest times for edible plants indigenous to the areas. They harvest roots such as breadroot, camas root, and bitterroot in the spring and summer; berries in the late summer; and acorns in autumn.

Small-business leaders are responsible for setting a business direction that helps their companies compete with much bigger corporations. They then have to assemble a team that will help them carry out that mission.

It's no small task. To learn the secrets of those who've done it successfully, we asked five of the leaders that were named to Glassdoor's list of the "25 Highest Rated CEOs at Small and Mid-Sized Companies" to share their best advice for small-business owners.

Scroll down for their responses.

Intacct Corporation's Robert Reid says to hold people accountable.

Intacct provides businesses with financial management and account services. Reid ranked first on Glassdoor's list, with a 100% employee approval rating.

Reid recommends that small-business CEOs create a compelling mission and instill their company's values into their employees. This can be maintained by creating quarterly objectives for every employee. "Hold people accountable for their objectives, because the fabric of the company is woven through the results of all," Reid says.

Fusion-io's Shane Robison recommends getting rid of your ego.

Fusion-io is a computer hardware and software company that provides businesses with services like cloud computing and big data collection. Robison ranked No. 15 on Glassdoor's list, with an 89% approval rating.

"I love the quote: 'Enough about me, let's talk about you … What do you think about me?'" Robinson says, joking about managers' tendency to become self-centered and micromanage their companies. "The truth is that it's not all about you — engage great people to help."

DocuSign's Keith Krach says to always be enthusiastic.

DocuSign provides e-signature and digital transaction management software to over 95,000 companies of various sizes. Larger clients include HP, Red Bull, and Yahoo. Krach ranked No. 20 on the list, with an 82% approval rating.

Krach recommends that entrepreneurs and executives follow their passion, because their energy will be contagious."People can deny your logic, but they can never deny your enthusiasm,"Krach said.

Seventy years ago, they were young men thrust into one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Now in their late 80s and early 90s, the veterans of D-Day are living connections to the military gambit that helped liberate Europe from fascism and set the stage for the conclusion of the most destructive conflict in human history.

This 88 year-old veteran, pictured during a re-enactment of a paratrooper landing near Normandy, participated in a glider-borne attack on German artillery positions during the D-Day invasion.

One British veteran arrived in France much the same way he did seventy years ago: by parachute.

American Jim Martin of the 101st Airborne arrived by parachute too.

Grilling steaks and drinking beer is always great, but many dads dread the thought of receiving another tacky tie.

Take some time this year to prepare for Father's Day, on June 15th, and thank dad for all he's done with a gift he'll actually love.

Whether he's a golfer, tech guru, or beer aficionado, we've found the perfect gift for every type of dad.

With Mantry, dad can look forward to delicious food deliveries each month.

Mantry, which is shorthand for "the modern man's pantry," will surprise dad with packages containing artisan food products and guidance for how to make the most of them. 

From bacon to beer products, each box of six items has a cool theme that dad will love.

Price: $225 for a three-month subscription

Give dad the gift of crystal clear sound without background noise.

Don't underestimate the power of great acoustics. Try a pair of the Grado SR125i's from our list of the best headphones. With a retro look and sweet sound quality, dad will be able to focus on his favorite tunes.  

This gift is especially useful for any dad who travels a lot, and wants to tune out the noisy airport bustle.

Price: $169.99

The Garmin Golf Approach S4 watch will have dad feeling like a pro.

Help dad's game with this golf gadget. The touch screen GPS watch comes preloaded with over 30,000 international golf courses so that he can easily access his games' locations and key course distances. 

The sleek watch also lets him keep score and syncs his phone's messages to pop up right on the screen.

Price: $299.99

The San Francisco Giants have jumped to the top of this week's Power Rankings, narrowly edging out last week's top team, the Oakland A's.

Those two teams have built big leads in their divisions and are already near-locks to make the playoffs with just a little more than one-third of the season completed.

Meanwhile, there are already five teams that can start looking towards next season with less than a 5.0% chance of playing in this year's postseason.

Using a combination of how well teams have played, how well they are expected to play moving forward, as well as the likelihood of making the playoffs, we broke down each team. Here is how they stand.

#1  San Francisco Giants (39-21)

Previous Ranking: 3

Expected Wins*: 34.9

PECOTA Projected Wins: 93

Playoff Odds: 95.9%

PECOTA Projected Wins and Playoff Odds via BaseballProspectus.com

* Expected Wins (AKA Pythagorean Record) is the record a team would be expected to have at this point in the season based on how many runs they have scored and allowed and adjusted for strength of schedule.

#2  Oakland A's (37-23)

Previous Ranking: 1

Expected Wins*: 42.7

PECOTA Projected Wins: 90

Playoff Odds: 93.0%

* Expected Wins (AKA Pythagorean Record) is the record a team would be expected to have at this point in the season based on how many runs they have scored and allowed and adjusted for strength of schedule.

#3  Toronto Blue Jays (37-24)

Previous Ranking: 8

Expected Wins*: 33.3

PECOTA Projected Wins: 89

Playoff Odds: 78.2%

* Expected Wins (AKA Pythagorean Record) is the record a team would be expected to have at this point in the season based on how many runs they have scored and allowed and adjusted for strength of schedule.