Silo Quotes

“...Everything we do is left in...like a trail out there, a big ring of decisions. Every action we take-"
"And mistake."
"And every mistake. But every good thing we do as well. They are immortal, every single touch we leave behind. Even if nobody sees them or remembers them, that doesn't matter. That trail will always be what happened, what we did, every choice. The past lives on forever. There's no changing it.”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“WIth silo mentality, organizations lose their collaborative advantage as they are being over managed and under led.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight

“Who are we, if not the sum of our memories?”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.”
― Pearl Zhu, Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future

“Silo thinking creates blind spots and enlarges IT-business gaps.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Complex deployments often require multiple handoffs between teams, particularly in siloed organizations where database administrators, network administrators, systems administrators, infosec, testing/QA, and developers all work in separate teams.”
― Nicole Forsgren

“Steve and Karen extend our view beyond the interrelationships of team, management, and leadership practices, beyond the skillful adoption of DevOps, and beyond the breaking down of silos—all necessary, but not sufficient. Here we see the evolution of holistic, end-to-end organizational transformation, fully engaged and fully aligned to enterprise purpose.”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

“Support and facilitate collaboration among teams. This reflects how well teams, which have traditionally been siloed, interact in development, operations, and information security.”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

“Applying a systems perspective to your life would mean managing all the parts as a unified whole to achieve your mission. It also means ensuring that all the various parts of your life work together in a fully interconnected, unified, and mutually beneficial manner. Compartmentalization is out, just as silos are frowned on in corporations. You may have heard about breaking down organizational silos. Now, it’s time to break down the silos within yourself.”
― Penelope Przekop, 5-Star Career

“The thing about power and influence is that it kind of sucks you in gradually. You become more and more trusted, you become part of the inner circle of knowledge, and by the time you're there, you don't even know you have been corrupted. It's the slow drip. It's the frog in the pot of water that's slowly boiling. By the time you realise what's being done, you're already cooked.”
― Tim Robbins

“The reason amnesia is a big part of the books is that a lot of this story is the tragedy that we fight the same battles over and over again as a civilization. There are problems that we have solved, and then we backslide not to solve them again, because every generation doesn't learn from the past, they forget the lessons that we've learned, and they think we're going to unique times, but we're not, we're repeating the same mistakes over and over again.”
― Hugh Howey