S2E03 – Future of Work Reality Check: Fact vs. Clickbait

with Brian Elliott, Author & Co-Founder, Future Forum

S2E03: Brian Elliott, Co-Founder, Future Forum, Author & Future of Work expert is our guest‼️🥳

FACT or CLICKBAIT ⁉️ Play along with Brian and I and find answers to every question on The Future of Work you’ve ever had and didn’t know whom to ask‼️😁

I dug up news headlines and CEO quotes (read: rant) and tossed them over to Brian for his insights. If you know Brian, you know that he tackles these with data, evidence, grace and a hearty dose of humor ‼️

Here are a few:

😱 “The work from anywhere era is over”

😱 “Remote work kills productivity”

😱 “They have no attachment, no passion, no creativity” a Fortune 500 CEO said.

😱 “As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of office culture with remote work”

😱 A KPMG study found that ~90% CEOs are likely to reward employees who make an effort to come into the office with favorable assignments, raises or promotions… Wait, isn’t that discrimination? 😱

We have way too much fun with these and get a little (or a lot) carried away‼️

This is an episode you don’t want to miss. 

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About Brian Elliott:

Brian Elliott, one of Forbes’ “Future of Work 50,” is a speaker and leadership advisor who combines 25 years of leadership experience as a startup CEO and executive at Google and Slack with insights built while leading Future Forum, a think tank focused on the future of work. 

Brian’s work enables leaders to build a future of work that’s better for people and organization. It’s rooted in research combined with storytelling and practical, tactical advice.

Prior to Future Forum, Brian spent 25 years building and leading teams and companies as a startup CEO, and as an executive at Google and Slack. Brian got his MBA from Harvard Business School and BA at Northwestern and started his career at Boston Consulting Group, where he’s now a Senior Advisor. 

He’s the bestselling author of How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams To Do the Best Work of Their Lives, a LinkedIn Top Voice, has been published in Harvard Business Review, Charter, Fast  Company, Fortune, Sloan Management Review, Time as well as cited extensively in Axios, Bloomberg, CNBC, the Economist, Forbes, the FT, NYTimes, WSJ among others, and a speaker at a wide range of events (ex., WSJ Future of Everything Festival, Running Remote) and podcasts.

Brian is also the proud dad of two young men and one middle-aged dog. You can find Brian on LinkedIn.

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