Stewart Butterfield Quotes

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate, bureaucratic nightmare.

We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.

You make sure to set True Norths for your company. You can't be involved in every decision and every meeting; you have to make sure the mission is very built into the culture, the product, and how you communicate.

The infusion of technology and social marketing to bar spaces is a big opportunity.

On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

Being surrounded by diverse points of view pushes us beyond our comfort zones. And when people and teams bring multiple perspectives and experiences to the table, the discussions are deeper, the decision-making process is better, and the solutions are stronger.

Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.

Vince McMahon - he's third generation, and his enormous empire, he ran it much like the territories. The buck stopped with him; he made the decisions. That's how a company should be run. Feast or famine, right or wrong, the WWE is driven off his decision making and always has been.

Lucasfilm has always had an openness to technology.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

Chemistry's a word that people who make hires and decisions say, 'Hey, you guys go out and work on your chemistry!'

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

I grew up in the IBM school of management.

If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people you work with.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

I think you’re going to see tech bringing efficiencies to businesses that aren’t pure tech.

If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.

If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working with half the team and you go through the game-planning and decision-making processes.

Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.