If you’ve been following this feed, you know how this goes by now: CreativeMornings Phoenix hosts a free monthly talk, one local creative, one theme shared with hundreds of chapters around the world, no pitch, no agenda. I show up most months, notebook in hand, ready to get talked out of whatever I thought I understood walking in. This month did that within the first five minutes – and the speaker had me thinking about something I’m going to call open palm leadership.
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Everyone has that aunt. You know the one. She still has a rotary phone hanging on her kitchen wall – not ironically, not as décor, just because it works. And right next to it, a notepad. Notes from long friendly phone conversations. Who she should call back. Errands she needs to run. People she wants to send a letter – yes, a letter, with an envelope and a stamp. Everything written down, orderly, a list with no real order, but crossed off when done. She’s not particularly tech-savvy. She’s not type-A. She just figured out a long time ago that a good day doesn’t happen on its own. It has to be organized into existence.
She has never worked remotely. She has never managed a distributed team. But if she had, she would have been very good at it. Not that she would tell you so, you just know it.
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Somewhere along the way, productivity got loud. And the idea of a workspace that supports focus got complicated.
Standing desks slid from tech-savvy badge of honor to boilerplate expectation. Slack notifications became a cacophony of noise akin to a spastic metronome. “Always on” stopped sounding like a warning and started showing up as a job requirement. And before anyone really noticed, the modern workspace stopped being about helping people think – and started being about proving they were busy.
But here’s the quieter truth most high-performing teams already understand: hustle doesn’t scale. Focus does.
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In 2020, mental health finally received much due attention.
Billions of people were forced to isolate themselves away from any friends or extended family and asked to work from home to stop the spread of Covid-19. From this came one of the largest mental health crises to ever happen, bringing these once taboo conversations to the forefront of the world’s attention- specifically pertaining to the workplace.
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