Slack is a team of 15 people who meet once a quarter to brainstorm. They use one screen per person, with the mic in the room for audio and chat access. The groupthink problem can often be solved by using "brainwriting," or storming good ideas into bad ones.
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Middle managers don’t have it easy.
They actually have worse stress levels than anybody else, including individual contributors and executives.
In episode #120, Brian shares many results and interesting statistics done from pulse surveys at Future Forum on the way people are working.
Brian Elliott is the Executive Leader of the Future Forum, a consortium launched by Slack to enable leaders to redesign work to be better for people and organizations. Prior to Slack, Brian was General Manager of Google Express, Google’s full stack commerce platform.
Brian shares how managers are coping and what kind of strategies are actually working, what is workplace culture and how to offer real flexibility.
Tune in to hear all about Brian’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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