Titles only matter to me when I need what they communicate. Once, when working in a distributed team where I was going to be the lead, it was critical to me th

Titles only matter to me when I need what they communicate. Once, when working in a distributed team where I was going to be the lead, it was critical to me that I was "promoted" to a more senior title than the people I was working with. I didn't care what the title was, nor did I care for the money. (I didn't get a raise.) All that mattered was that the title established who was in charge. It didn't matter what the title was.