On 03/30/2010 04:19 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: > Thanks Andrew for clearing this. I guess this makes me a principal too.
Absolutely. It's a title, simply because one has to pick some sort of title (though this, too, is in dispute). For a very small LLC, and granted the premise that a title is needed, it's a harder problem than it looks. - "Manager" or "director" fail to adequately convey that one is also in an executive capacity, while simultaneously implying management hierarchy which does not exist in such a small business. - "President" or "Vice President" is viable, but, again, has the problem of being too pompous and grandiloquent for a very small company where such a title, even if given, is quite patently meaningless in practical terms. - "CEO" technically applies only to proper corporations, although many people appoint themselves CEOs of other types of legal structures. Like the preceding, it also has the problem of being overly flamboyant for a tiny company, and liable to field accusations of egomania. There are various choices with their respective advantages and disadvantages, but I and many others have settled on "principal" because it seems to tersely convey what needs to be conveyed without being disproportionately regal or outsized relative to a small company. We've all heard of the 6-person companies that have 4 VPs of something, and we know how meaningless this is; "principal" strikes me as an attractive way to avoid that. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC Tel : +1 678-954-0670 Direct : +1 678-954-0671 Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
