Walt Mossberg Quotes

Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

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.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.

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

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

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

You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE

I talk a lot with my team-mates.

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.

If you don't have a cohesive team, you won't have good results.

Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.

I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.

I think I can contribute to the team in a multitude of ways.

There is no point having team meetings where no one speaks because you don't learn anything.

It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.

Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.

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.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.