Managers like to have one person to deal with so they don’t get conflicting messages. This is practical and fair enough. They don’t want to follow an internal debate about what to do; they just want to know what the conclusion is. A good way to manage this is that one person on the EC is delegated to have the communication function. A good way for that person to ensure transparency is to CC the rest of the EC into such correspondence or to forward correspondence promptly. This gives opportunity for other EC members to say ‘Hang on. That’s not what I thought we agreed.’