Actually, this may not be the case. Because of your failure to communicate, you may not receive the end product you were expecting. This same problem may occur when you geographically separate departments or functions of an organization. The telephone may not provide the answer. The line may be busy when the call is placed, or the person being called may be out of the office.
Memoranda sometime provide the answer to the space barrier.
However, this might turn out to be a one-way communication of directions or information. If the recipient of a memorandum doesn t understand the message, or if he mistakenly thinks he understands, the communication process fails. Empathy and Other Relationships Lack of empathy can create a barrier between the sender and receiver. You can transmit a better message if you can put yourself in the receiver's place and analyze the message from his viewpoint. The same holds true for the receiver.