Stewart Butterfield Quotes

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

I don't need to spend hours in meetings, because I can have a two-minute conversation with a colleague who is pretty damn smart and who knows how to get the job done. And, if he needs my help on something, he'll let me know.

Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

When you got a personal relationship with somebody, it's easier to work with someone.

Work goes well if you give your best with the guy beside you.

When it comes right down to it, I don't care if I like the person I'm paired with or if the person likes me as long as it works and it sets up the team for success.

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don't build that many relationships.

When you are in a big team, there's time when you can stay out.

What's the biggest function of a cell phone? What does a cell phone do for humanity? It makes people more productive.

I don't really like to work with a large team and assistants, because then I lose so much time explaining things, which I don't like.

I'm just gonna make plays and bring a good atmosphere to your organization.

People need to know their role to produce performances and results.

When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.

The best way I know to get good work out of people is to create a good environment so that people have a good experience. I try to always hold up my own end by being prepared.

It's important that I work with good people.

The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.

When you get everybody going in the right direction you can do some great things, and that's in any business.

Conversation is a really good way to get things done.