Silos Quotes

“In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.”

“Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what’s best for the project.”

“Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.”

“Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.”

“But here's the rub: looking across silos for opportunities to improve capabilities is one thing; creating a vision for how to seize those opportunities as another. Communicating that vision effectively is harder still. But the real work, the deepest work, is in the deciding to stick your neck out in the first place.”

“As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.”

“At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos.”

“We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.”

“This next president is going to inherit the most sophisticated and persistent cyber espionage cultures the world has ever seen, He needs to surround himself with experts that can expedite the allocation of potent layers of next generation defenses around our targeted critical infrastructure silos.”