There's pent-up demand in many industries and workloads are high. Employees are demanding flexibility of both schedule and location, and employers are exhausted from the challenges of constant adaptation. How do we meet in the middle, with satisfied employees at thriving businesses?

So what's to be done?

Our long-term professional success - especially as we move into senior roles - depends upon identifying areas of strategic importance and making real progress. This is not just checking tasks off the to-do list. Rather it's about checking off the right tasks to make real progress on what matters! 

When we are feeling dissatisfied, our tendency is to move away from what annoys us. Instead, we should move toward what satisfies us. We can use our values as are guiding North star.