On 12/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Not really. If you only have one person per job, they are all going to be in charge of their job. There is only one person looking after the office, so they are the Office Manager. There's only one person handling business development, so they are the Head of Business Development. I guess you could just call Kul "Business Developer", but I imagine the big titles are handed out in order to make it easier if more staff are hired that need to report to an existing member of staff... and because people like to have a big title, of course.
Also, it's better having a business card that says "Head of Business Development" rather than "Peon". Alison Wheeler gets in a lot of doors just with the title "Chair, Wikimedia UK", and that's a voluntary position. Titles are important.
- d.