Stewart Butterfield Quotes

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

In my experience, in this industry, the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Messaging is such an integral part of our lives, and Begroupd will help solve problems everyone can relate to.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

In a disaster you have to have speed. In order to have speed, you have to have trust. And in order to have trust, you have to have people organized and planning before the disaster.

Organization, not machine. Get that. Organization, not machine.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

We are connecting everything to everything

With clearly defined roles and a focus on communication, it's much easier to make your company come across as well-organized and on top of things - because it actually is.

The social use of Slack does drive awareness - it's a good thing for us.

We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

Leadership contains certain elements of good management, but it requires that you inspire, that you build durable trust. For an organization to be not just good but to win, leadership means evoking participation larger than the job description, commitment deeper than any job contract's wording.

Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization - staff, players, coaches, management, and ownership. When everyone is on the same page, trust develops, and teams can grow and succeed together.

I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot.

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another.