It has been a long time since I have posted....its about time. I would not want my blog police friends to come afer me! So much has happened since my last post....I finished reading the Frantic Family and Silos....both authored by theman who wrote The Five Dysfunctions of a Team- Lencioni. From both of these works many thoughts came to my mind....they are connected....the idea of working in silos....turf wars......does this really happen where we exist? Perhaps? Then the Frantic Family feeds off of silos.....what can be done in your family to eliminate chaos.......
Eliminating chaos...what a refreshing idea....this all goes back to saying - NO- when at all possible....but back to silos......After reading this book, I truly began looking at my own work in terms of silos and, politics and turf wars.....I live in a land of utopia....do they exist in our division...perhaps? If we do not see it...are we masking the behaviors? I would like to think [again utopia] that our division has such a strong sense of family that this notion of silos is minimal.....
What do you think? Silos or not??
Uncertainty
14 years ago
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silos, yes, albeit minimal. the silos don't interfere with our ability to work as a team or to embrace our bigger family, but it just wouldn't be true to think that people aren't sometimes put into a mental frame of 'my team first'. is it possible that healthy competition, of sorts, can be mistaken as a silo? part of our good fortune may be that we come from education backgrounds where there is a constant stuggle to bring everyone along and work for a greater good. me first doesn't work in the classroom, and it certainly wouldn't work in our world either.
ReplyDeleteWe live in a family of silos - we sometimes build them at home with our families (ie. the great television invention, and yes, sometimes the Internet too), we build them with our friends and often at work too. Society emphasizes the "me" in us all. Aren't I important? Shouldn't I have that privilege? We want to stroke ourselves as often as possible. when we learn to place others before ourselves, the silos will slowly deteriorate. Will they completely be torn down on this earth? I think not. EAch time we reach out to others we are taking a step towards "Utopiaville". A journey begins with one small step.
ReplyDeleteSilos are very evident in the work environment. Interestingly enough, workers committed to the task minimize their impact when they work to keep their eyes focused on the task. Sometime ignorance really is bliss.
ReplyDeleteOur work family is like a real functioning family. We have our issues, but we pull together to support each other to represent our family in the best possible light. We all have our strengths and weakensses yet sharing and learning seem to be universal strengths of professional family. That's the fabric that unifies us and gets us out of what I suppose is silo mentality ( I haven't read the book, but would love to borrow it.)
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