[makeitsuckless]

> The CEO of a flat company probably has a need to see everything

And Slack does an excellent job at demonstrating why that is idealistic nonsense and simply bad management that doesn't work, simply by making it possible to actually see almost _everything_.

It's one of the great things about Slack, it's much like Scrum in that respect: it may not be the answer, but it sure as hell will confront you with what the actual questions are.

Unfortunately, people who don't want to face their problems will immediately turn around and blame the tool/method. So very typical.

[KZeillmann]

This is exactly the issue. Slack will expose more issues than it will create. If people misuse a tool because of some underlying problems, switching tools will just hide the problems, not solve them.