What We Learned in Quarantine & How to Bring It Into Everyday Life

Put your mental health first.

One thing I believe with all my heart is that, in times of crisis, we are at our most inventive, most tenacious, and most open to new things. For all the hardships of the present moment, we will be forced to be at our best as we transform much about how we do business. Great challenges demand greater solutions, and my hope is that these dark days will give way to new innovation, smarter ideas, greater compassion, people-first values, stronger businesses, a healthier economy, and a better way to work.  

Aside from the difficult adjustment to working from home (along with suddenly juggling homeschooling for those of us who are parents), the crisis element at play here — the anxiety, the stress, even the boredom — are all too often overlooked. That’s something we have to account for when approaching our day. And it’ll require a new, better understanding of productivity that we should keep even after we return to the office: one that’s more focused on quality and results, rather than quantity and hours logged.