Asymmetric communication: what it is and what it means

Asymmetric communication is an organizational pattern that appears when the founder receives a lot of information from the team but gives little back: team members know what is happening in their own area, but have no visibility on strategic decisions, on the reasons for changes, on the criteria used to choose priorities. In the absence of explicit communication people build their own explanations, generating informal rumors about the real reasons for decisions.

Distinctive: the founder receives a lot of information from the team but gives little back
Distinctive: in the absence of explicit communication people build their own explanations
Essential: have no visibility on strategic decisions
Essential: on the criteria used to choose priorities
Constant: team members know what is happening in their own area
Constant: informal rumors about the real reasons for decisions

Glossary

Asymmetric communication

A pattern in which the founder receives a lot of information from the team but gives little back, generating informal rumors and making the direction hard to read.