Organization

So today I thought, "I guess the best place to start is organization." Now my colleague and I have a little bit of a difference in organizational philosophies when dealing with files and papers and whatnot. However, that is not what I mean. The way you set up your staff can work for you or against you.
The most important thing in building your team is to have an editor-in-chief that will oversee the operations of the magazine. He/She has to understand, up front, that they make the decisions and are responsible for others completing their jobs. People doing their jobs leads to success.
So here's our line up:
-Editor-in-Chief
-Assistant to the Editor
-Production Supervisor (Money person)
-Layout Editor
-Literary Editor
-Art Editor

Others that join the magazine that don't have one of the jobs listed are put onto teams that support these positions. Those teams are:
-Production Team (Money/Sponsors)
-Lit Team (Collection/review of lit submissions)
-Art Team (Collection/review of art submissions)

So that is the organizational make up of our magazine. For as many magazines, there are as many variations on staff organization. The key to a good staff ends up being the editor-in-chief.