How to Find Focus in Distracting Workplaces

Meet concentration: the most valuable skill of the 21st century.

Tom Denz
Tom Denz
Nov 6 · 3 min read

The phone rings. A colleague drops by. Your boss calls you into their office for a chat.

Any one of these situations will sound familiar to open office workers. Distraction is part of life in an open office. But if you really want to do great work, learning…

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