#61 with Steward Butterfield, Slack CEO & Co-Founder

"90% of my job is to make sure that the organization is performing
at the highest possible level." New work is definitely about the
people. It's ‘people before paper’. But if you were to ask someone
what communication tool truly represents new work, in almost all
cases, people will say: Slack. We had the honour of meeting Stewart
Butterfield, the co-founder and CEO of Slack. To put it in
perspective, Slack is known as one of the fastest growing companies
in history and one of the hottest startups of the time. With a
valuation of over 5 billion US dollars, Slack is still growing with
roughly 1000 people working within the organisation. Stewart deeply
cares about the way they work at Slack and he shared with me very
openly how his role as a leader has changed. Successful, yet
humble. Innovative, yet down-to-earth, with a very fundamental
understanding for what is important in life and work. It was
definitely an interview that I enjoyed a lot, since we have many
clients who use this tool and ask us for our input and advice. So
for this episode, we went one step further - directly to the
source: How Slack is used at Slack effectively and how they live
and push ‘new work’ to new limits. And as Stewart hints throughout
the discussion - it's not just about the tool. Have fun with
Episode 60 of the #OntheWaytonewWork Podcast via: SPOTIFY
spotify.onthewaytonewwork.com SOUNDCLOUD
soundcloud.com/onthewaytonewwork And ITUNES
itunes.onthewaytonewwork.com And all book tips here
books.onthewaytonewwork.com With Christoph Magnussen and Michael
Trautmann Shownotes: Can you give us a little introduction about
yourself? (0:40 Min.) Are you still working with the same team?
(2:40 Min.) How does Slack change our Workstyle? (4:40 Min.) How do
Leaders have to adopt new Technologies? (12:20 Min.) Where does
your motivation to change our way of working come from? (20:50
Min.) How has your culture changed while you were growing from
twenty to over 1000 employees? (25:00 Min.) How is your company
culture structured? (29:10 Min.) How do you organise your physical
Workspace? (37:10 Min.) Can you share with us, how you keep
yourself in such a good mood? (41:30 Min.) Where do you get
inspiration from? (52.20 Min.)