Plus ca change
...answering email and otherwise disengaging while satisfying the need for their presence, which is, as before, more political than essential. They were invited, they showed up, and so their silo...… (7 comments)
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Manager mapping
...similarly preposterous analogizing, provide useful insights for us? Islands: This is an easy one. Organizationally, islands are silos. The water surrounding them helps prevent invasions from other islands. Also continents,...… (4 comments)
Optimizing benchmarks
...Whether you call it operating in silos, overemphasizing the organizational chart or a highly politicized organization, it derives from the same root cause: The self-defeating attempt to optimize the whole...…
KJR Manifesto – Core Principles
...silos from competing with each other instead of the company’s competitors. 2. Big solutions that work great generally start as small solutions that work acceptably. In general, putting something into...… (3 comments)
An important fact about nutrition
...is required to implement services oriented architecture includes (in addition to support from its consultants): Eliminating office politics and organizational silos, firing narcissistic executives, improving corporate governance, and implementing Lean,...…
De truth about cutting IT costs
...into silos. When times are tight, reorganize work around generalists. De-layer: How many layers of manager separate you from those who do real work? Second question: How many people report,...…
Cwazy wabbits
...Have leaders who train other leaders to lead this way. The usual corporate dysfunctions, replete with knowledge hoarding, internal competition, and organizational silos, would prevent the first three capabilities from...… (7 comments)
The case for decentralized control
...end of civilization from a plummeting asteroid. Last week we continued by exploring what should be the ideal case for centralized decision-making, the perfectly siloed enterprise-as-machine, where every organizational unit...… (3 comments)
Uncomfortable conversations
...involves a much larger population, and contributes to organizational siloes besides. Layer on a racial, ethnic, cultural or religious dimension, though, and the situation can get way out of hand....… (7 comments)
A tablet-driven view of what’s wrong with American business
...without anyone having to sweat the details. It’s also a second exemplar. Reportedly, one reason these machines were so poorly executed was internal infighting at Microsoft — competing organizational silos...… (12 comments)