Have you participated in brainstorming sessions to surface new ideas and thinking? Have you seen how one creative idea can trigger another?

Workplace dress codes launched back into headlines when Goldman Sachs announced that suits and ties were optional in March 2019. The move was surprising across the board – Goldman Sachs, like other finance giants, has long been known for its suited and polished employees – and signals a widespread change in workplaces across America.

There are very few people that don't struggle with work-life balance, at least to some extent. We all want to get better at it, but we don't want to make tradeoffs in productivity. And there's a vastly unhelpful by-product that oozes out of this tension.

It happens to everyone. You suddenly realize you've drifted into spending your time at work on far too much stuff that doesn't matter and far too little that does. You're caught in a work plan that isn't how you planned to work, at all.