# pressure
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0:00Are middle managers being set up to fail?Al Elliott: You know that feeling when you meet someone and within about 90 seconds you're just nodding along and thinking, yes, yes, yes, this person gets it. Every single thing they say you agree with. Well, today's guEP 311 · 18 Jun 2026·interview· 0:00–3:307:05What's putting managers under so much pressure right now?Leanne Elliott: I mean, that's not new. That's always been the case. But it feels like now middle managers are under an added layer of pressure in terms of geopolitics, the economy, AI Kristien Turner: Yeah Leanne ElliotEP 311 · 18 Jun 2026·interview· 7:05–12:4364:55Calmness under pressure: leading in crisisJames Hardie: Yeah, that's an interesting statistic. I'd be interested in how they measured that, but that's wild to even think about. I had an example to answer your question that happened to me many, many years ago. AnEP 303 · 21 May 2026·panel interview· 64:55–70:1810:52Prediction 2 — More of the same… but with more pressure (Danny Wareham)Al Elliott: Our next prediction comes from Danny Wareham, who's the creator of Constellation Leadership and author of the book with the same name Leanne Elliott: Danny has got a bit of a contrarian take on 2026. He startEP 263 · 1 Jan 2026·other· 10:52–17:124:49The pressure to have all the answersTim Lupinacci: I think, Leanne, that's a great question because I kind of view that in that vein. And I know people have different views about this, of sort of that imposter syndrome, that people are going to find out thEP 215 · 17 Jul 2025·interview· 4:49–9:2122:36Al on the relentless pressure of hustle cultureLeanne Elliott: You were saying there it took you years to, to recover. From what? Like, how were you feeling? How are you thinking? What was that looking like? And how did you recover? Al Elliott: I always felt if I staEP 60 · 12 Oct 2023·other· 22:36–26:01
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