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"Do we really need to go to the office?"

Many employees are asking this question in the face of the leadership at major companies like Amazon, Apple, Disney, Starbucks, and JP Morgan mandating three or more days a week of office-based work. Employees are adamant that they are doing their jobs effectively at home, and data supports the improved productivity of remote work. At the same time, many leaders feel that remote work undermines areas like communication, coordination, and cybersecurity. 

However, with the advent of generative AI like ChatGPT, we are on the cusp of realizing the full potential of remote and hybrid work by reducing – while not eliminating – the benefits of office visits. Over the past few months, an increasing number of business leaders I talk to are focused on how generative AI can help unlock the full power of remote and hybrid workforces. That includes enabling more effective information sharing, enhancing communication and collaboration, improving productivity and efficiency, supporting knowledge management and skill development, and ensuring security and privacy.

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It was emotionally difficult to push myself to prune the trees in my backyard garden. It feels really hard to cut off so much of last year's growth: it feels wasteful, like I’m reducing their potential to bear fruit this year and beyond. Sure, all of the tree experts say you need to prune trees to get the best harvest, and I accept that I’m no expert and should listen to them, but it’s still difficult to bring myself to do it. I have to overcome unpleasant emotions and feelings of sadness in order to make the difficult cuts that result in trees maximizing fruit production for this season and beyond. 

It reminds me, to some extent, of the work involved in editing my writing: cutting down longer articles to make them as concise and readable as possible for my audience, while still retaining the key ideas, supporting points, and illustrative examples. Similarly to pruning trees, it feels wasteful and saddening to cut away the phrases I created. 

Still, in both cases, the outcome will be better. I am less confident about the trees, since I’m no expert, but I have to trust the experts. I am much more confident in my writing, since I am an expert there. And my knowledge of the benefits of pruning my writing helps motivate me to prune my trees.

In what areas of your life do you have to make tough pruning decisions to achieve the best outcomes? How do you deal with the unpleasant feelings involved?

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Decisively Yours,

Dr. Gleb

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

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