it is hard to draw and talk at the same
time I underlined it I'm Stewart
Butterfield CEO and one of the
cofounders of slack and I need to be dry
in the future of work I think the future
of work is going to be better
coordination between people so I'm gonna
draw a bunch of little dots and each of
those dots is a person the way things
work and look today is there are as many
little silos of information as there are
dots on this graph and obviously people
can send messages to anyone else and you
can have email that goes to you more
than one recipient but there is no one
place where all of this comes together
each inbox is entirely isolated and
separate you've got mail but with luck
and tools like slack you can create what
are called channels in they create a
place to hold information that is
distinct from the individual people so
bringing all this all these
conversations together means that when I
want to get an update on what's going on
I don't have to ask someone to stop what
they're doing and prepare an update for
me I can just go look in the process of
all these conversations and it's not
just that I can see it it's that people
across the company can see it
I'm gonna draw a whole bunch of circles
again so this is it take a second all
right
individual people are getting more
productive the software tools are
getting better and better with that
comes a lot of increase in individual
productivity and a lot of organizations
you end up in a situation where
different people are pushing literally
in different directions and the net
effect of that is just a zero on the
other hand everyone moving together
causes a lot more actual productivity at
the organizational level I think the
future of work is starting to think a
lot more about organizational
performance and how to align people some
things like take a second to say but a
long time to draw