Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
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Interruptions The format is fragmented and constrained slack search is broken It increases productivity (the bad kind) It replaces documentation What does slack do right trello & jira #deleteuber Between 2014 and 2016 my working life went through a lot of changes but the worst one was the normalization of slack. Managers like it because it ‘gets things down on paper’, ‘improves reachability’, ‘gets questions answered quickly’. My argument is that it destroys teams’ ability to think, plan & get complex work out the door. Read on for the full story. Interruptions slack empowers your worst people
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