Open communication can play a vital role in your small business

Jun 30, 2011

I have seen few businesses are very fond of making hierarchies. They have a Software engineer, then a team supervisor, then a team leader then a manager, then a project manager, then a Vice President. Now, you can imagine if a software engineer wants to give an idea to a VP, how it’s going to be. In a large business it is understandable because they have many projects running simultaneously. However, in a small business there is absolutely no need for such hierarchies. Instead, hire more of the talented software engineers who will actually create/improve your product. Now, say the VP takes care of all the business decisions in a firm. He will get many ideas from the software engineers because they are ones who are spending most of their time with the actual product. Make sure you do have a channel for such communication. Just try this and you will see that you are getting great inputs. Not even this there should be an open channel of communication between all members of your company. Of course there is open communication between peers; however, it should be open to all.

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