Future Forum is a think tank backed by Slack. We also have partners at Boston Consulting Group, Miller Knoll and Management Leadership for tomorrow. What did you find out about middle managers and their abilities? They're pretty stressed, burned out, and really challenged. And what we need to do is take a step back and think about what's the role of management in the first place.
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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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