On 12/02/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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.