Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers that Turn Colleagues into Competitors
Written by Patrick Lencioni
Narrated by Eric Conger
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About this audiobook
"Silos" are organizations' vertical structures-but the word has become synonymous with barriers to workplace effectiveness and connotes deep political infighting. Silos devastate organizations, kill productivity, push good people out the door, and jeopardize the achievement of corporate goals. They cause stress, exasperation, and disappointment by forcing employees to fight bloody, unwinnable battles with people who should be teammates.
Like his other fables, SILOS, POLITICS, & TURF WARS is fiction in realistic form, involving not one, but three organizations, all struggling to eliminate their silos and bridge a sense of alignment back in place.
Patrick Lencioni
Patrick M. Lencioni is founder and president of The TableGroup, a management consulting firm specializing in organizational health and executive team development. As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with thousands of senior executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to start-ups and nonprofits. Lencioni is the author of nine business books with over three million copies sold worldwide. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and four boys.
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Reviews for Silos, Politics and Turf Wars
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Another leadership fable by Patrick Lencioni. His books are quick reads and leave you with common sense nuggets you can share with your team. This one is about breaking down silos to unite your team with a goal to rally behind. Lencioni takes common issues often experienced in the business world and breaks these problems down in a simple, relatable story. Good for teams and leaders who are looking for ways to work better together.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. Pat writes fun books to read and helps you learn a tremendous amount about leadership.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Concise, informative, to the point. I like the fable aspect of the storytelling.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As an HR director I related so much with the examples he displayed,
A lot of the ideas to beak the silos are common sense, however most organizations can’t see it without an outside viewer.
It will not give you the remedy, but it will teach you how to Conner silos , because every organization has its own unique culture weakness. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5liked it a lot. very interesting and pleasant to listen. learn a lot. recommend it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reader and listener friendly with valuable coaching and consulting cases to learn from!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I always enjoy the story method. I have learnt a lot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good business book. I have worked in organizations with silos and lots of politics. I did not stay there long…SLT
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Where are the meat & potatoes? Antidotal stories don't illuminate the real problems affecting leadership teams.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Really light. Really. Skip to the back, to the theory, because the rest is mostly idealized fluff to create a narrative around the theory. The context talks more about how to start your business as a consultant branching out on your own than provide deep insight into rallying the leadership around a thematic goal, defining objectives, and standard operating objectives. Even skipping to the meat of the content, there's not much there. Plus, I suspect this rallying only works when the leadership silos exist out of habit and not out of actual animosity -- if you've got actual personality clashes at your leadership table and they've rooted, this book will not be useful.
At least it only takes an hour or so to read. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. I love Lencioni's writing style - always telling a story in his books.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very helpful book on how to avoid political barriers in a workplace or team. The fable he uses to illustrate the principles is, as always, interesting but the insights are clear, simple and applicable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am conflicted in writing this review, since I had a bias about this book before I even cracked the cover. I don't much care for the fable as a means for communicating leadership theory and of course that is what this author does best. That said, some of his other fable-oriented books had far more meat in terms of their content than this one. This book presents a sound approach to how to address the problem of silos in organizations, but what could have taken two pages to write, took the entire book. I suggest you pick up his Five Temptations of a CEO of Five Disfunctions of a Team, if you like the fable writing style and want a few more tools to use in your organization.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quick read. If you're part of an organization that seems stuck or heading in a lot of different directions then this book may be one of the many keys to solving the problem.