How the Future Works

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<p><b><i>Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly,</i>and<i>USA Today</i>Bestseller<br /><br />Unlock the power of flexible work with this practical how-to guide from the leadership of Slack and Future Forum</b></p><p>The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office is now a relic of the past, and is being replaced by a better wayflexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to work from home: 93% of your employees want moreflexibility in<i>when</i>, not just<i>where</i>, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to find it. The most successful leaders will go much further than offering occasional remote workdaysthey will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen.</p><p><i>How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do The Best Work of Their Lives</i>offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people. The book offers the steps necessary to building the new principles and guardrails to empower flexible, high-performing teams. And it teaches readers to lead with purpose, to manage and measure differently, and to believe that by letting go, theyll get more back than they thought possible.</p><p><i>How the Future Works</i>explains how to:</p><ul><li>Establish leadership principles, commitments, and outcomes for truly flexible teamwork</li><li>Measure and assess productivity in a flexible workplace</li><li>Reskill managers to ensure a level playing field for all employees</li><li>Implement the infrastructure necessary to make flexible work successful</li></ul><p>Using original research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss& Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM,<i>How the Future Works</i> offers concrete solutions and practical steps for building high functioning teams of talented, engaged people by providing them with the flexibility and choice they need to do their best work.</p>

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<p><b>BRIAN ELLIOTT</b> is Executive Leader of Future Forum, a consortium backed by Slack and founding partners Boston Consulting Group, MillerKnoll, and Management Leadership for Tomorrow. Future Forum enables leaders to redesign work to be better for people and organizations. He has spent three decades leading teams and building companies as a startup CEO, at Google, and now at Slack where he is a Senior VP. Brians a proud father of two young men.</p><p><b> SHEELA SUBRAMANIAN</b> is Vice President and co-founder of Future Forum. She has 20 years of experience building high-growth global teams across Google, Slack, and startup organizations. As a champion for workplace equity, her work is cited in the<i>Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fast Company</i>, and other top-tier publications. Sheela earned her BA from Stanford and MBA from Harvard Business School and is the mother to two magical daughters.<p><b> HELEN KUPP</b> is a co-founder and Senior Director of Future Forum. She has led many of Slacks largest cross-functional and growth initiatives, and is the creator of many of Future Forums playbooks, tapping Future Forums research and networks along with her experiences at Slack, Bain& Company, startups, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. Shes also the lucky mom of two wonderful children.

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