¶ … Communication to Family and Work Relations One of the important problems that I have always encountered at work and in my family is the inevitable misunderstanding among people due to lack of or simply through wrong communication. By the absence of communication, I refer to the conflict that arises among people when they do not communicate about a problem at all. Wrong communication, meanwhile, is the misunderstanding (and even conflict) that arise when people contemplated a problem in an inefficient manner. I referred to both absence of and wrong communication because these are the main causes of conflicts that I usually have with my family and colleagues, respectively.

At work, wrong communication is an almost everyday and common occurrence. With the advent of new communication technology such as e-mailing, teleconferencing, and mobile communications, it is not at all surprising...

I myself was a victim of this phenomenon, having missed out on a particularly important e-mail or simply misunderstanding the message expressed in an e-mail, resulting to a conflict with a colleague. Worse, I was not able to work on my task efficiently because I failed to take note of an instruction sent through e-mail, an e-mail that could have changed the outcome of my work had I found the time to at least read it before getting my job done.
Lack of communication, meanwhile, commonly occurs in families who have less or no time in their hands…