Silos Quotes

“As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.”
― Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.”
― Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“Silo builds the wall in people’s minds and creates the barrier in organizations’ “hearts.”
― Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards

“Did he talk about silos?”
“Of course he did,” I said. “We have to break down the silos that separate the academic side of the house from the Student Retention Office, apparently.”
Emma wrinkled her nose. “Why is it a good thing to break silos? All that happens when you break a silo is that the grain spills out. Or the missile falls over.”
― Frankie Bow, The Musubi Murder

“Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what’s best for the project.”
― Eunice Parisi-Carew, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

“Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.”
― Pearl Zhu, It Innovation: Reinvent It for the Digital Age

“Silos are the great hidden constant of the industrialised world.”
― John Darnielle, Universal Harvester

“The most important thing we are doing here is collapsing the silos," says Eash Sundaram, EVP of innovation and CIO of JetBlue. "When we think about a program, we don't think about IT and finance and commercial operations. We think about how the program improves our customer or employee experience.”
― Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT

“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.”
― Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT

“Until every team member views the company as an interdependent enterprise, you will never have an owner company.”
― Daren Martin, A Company of Owners: Maximizing Employee Engagement

“It is worth the effort to break down silos, get out of the comfort zone, and prepare the future proactively, in order for individuals and businesses to reach the digital premium.”
― Pearl Zhu, The Change Agent CIO

“People can work on various, diverse projects across many industries without getting siloed into irrelevancy.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping