Move It to a Channel

Your team's email has turned into a cc-chain nobody can follow. The same question gets answered four times. A decision from March is buried in someone's sent folder, and the person who made it has left. So you installed Slack, and six months later it is mostly direct messages and a #general nobody reads. Nothing actually changed. This book fixes the reason why. Slack only replaces internal email if the conversation moves into channels, and that is a habit, not a setting. A message posted to a channel goes to a place instead of a person, so anyone who needs it can find it, join it, and still find it a year from now. A DM is invisible to everyone else and disappears when someone leaves. You will set up a workspace that still makes sense in a year, build a channel naming system that survives growth, and learn the one mechanic that separates a readable channel from an abandoned one. You will get notifications under control before people disengage, connect the tools you already use without drowning the team in noise, and automate the parts you repeat. The last chapter is the hard one: getting people who did not ask for this to change how they work. Written for whoever has to lead that change. No code, no theory.