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Why I Broke Up with Slack—And Went Back

The 3 Changes that Made It Work for Me and My Team Again

September 1, 2017 by Michael Hyatt

My team and I have been using Slack as our primary communication platform since June 2014. As we grew, email became unmanageable and other solutions like Basecamp weren’t a fit. After a full-immersion trial, we were sold! But then we unsold ourselves. It took three years. But, just as email didn’t scale with our growth, […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Slack, team, team communication

What the Success of Slack Can Teach Us about Creating Winning Products

November 21, 2014 by Michael Hyatt

What the Success of Slack Can Teach Us about Creating Winning Products

I love watching people succeed, especially if I can learn something I can apply in my own life and share with you. That’s why I’m excited about what I learned from watching Slack’s success this year. Slack is a communications tool that enables natural and effective team collaboration. The company, started by Stewart Butterfield, the […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: collaboration, Communication, email, Slack, team communication

How I Cut My Email Load by 83% in Less Than a Week

June 16, 2014 by Michael Hyatt

Slack on a Laptop

Lousy communications is one of the biggest challenges any team faces. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost files, even whole conversation threads, in email. And no one likes triaging an inbox, even with a good system. So what if we had a better solution? We do, thanks to a team of online […]

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: conversations, email, Slack, team communication, workflow