In today's workplace, most of our communication happens through text. As Erica Dhawan explains in Digital Body Language, when people can't see our facial expressions, hear our tone, or read our body language, they naturally fill in the gaps themselves. A message that seems perfectly clear to us can easily be misunderstood by someone else. That's why taking one minute to recheck your message before hitting Send is one of the simplest habits that can make you a better producer.

One of the biggest challenges in leadership and production is not only making sure people communicate, but making sure communication stays clear as the team grows. Every new person added to a project does not create just one more conversation. It creates multiple new communication paths between team members. These paths are called Lines of Communication. Lines of communication represent all the possible connections between people in a team where information, decisions, questi

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