Once you decide to share more information, tools abound.
It's a new year, so let's make some resolutions. Sure, you do it every January and little happens, but this year will be different. This year, the tightening economy will force people to pay more attention, watch what their customers and competitors are doing and look for an edge. Collaboration will give you that edge.
You have phones in your office and in your pocket. You have texting for the phone and e-mail and Instant Messaging for the computers (if you can stand to thumb your phone constantly and stay at your computer all the time). But those tools are from the old days, and no longer give you an edge.
Take a step back and look at how you're communicating (or not) within the company. If you're still a small company in one location, yelling down the hall may be the same as an all-hands memo. But since few small companies have a single location anymore, and even those that do need to communicate with workers at home and on the road, you'll need to be connected to something somewhere.
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