Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock over the last decade or so, you’ve probably heard of business guru and entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. When it comes to running a business, Musk does pretty much everything right. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, so I make a point to take whatever he has to say about running a business pretty seriously. I certainly don’t run my own business, but my job is to be a thought leader in the business and HR world, so I jump at any information I can pass along to my readers that will help them run their business. Musk is a big proponent of transparency within a business. Recently, an email he sent to his employees at Tesla, Inc was published on Inc.com that demonstrates his firm belief that communication within any business must flow unobstructed from top to bottom and front to back. So often even those companies that claim to be all about transparency and communication end up with red tape that has to be navigated when working interdepartmentally. If true success with this notion is to be achieved, there are a number of steps you can take in order to streamline communication within your business that will help your departments collaborate together instead of working against one another.

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