This blog has been particularly interested in how social media tools are changing management.
Last year we had an interview with Yammer’s founder Pisoni on how fast communications are breaking down business silos.
Matt Honan has an interview in Wired magazine with the founder of Slack, Stewart Butterfield.
Slack is a corporate communications tool and Butterfield sees the company as being the next Microsoft.
While that’s a big call, Butterfield shouldn’t be taken lightly having founded Flickr and following the company into its being absorbed by Yahoo!. Butterfield’s resignation letter after several years is an entertaining read.
Whether Slack becomes the next Microsoft or not, the changes to business communications with services like this are profound.
Dealing with the new ways of communicating within a business is going to be one of the greatest challenges to company managers over the next decade.