Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors

Another great read, highly recommended

Patrick Lencioni writes from experience and the fascinating fables in all his books are so real it makes their lessons truly significant. Handling internal pressures from these three difficult subjects forms the basis of this fable and the conclusions and potential solutions made me realize "keeping things simple" always works.

著者がコンサルタントとしていくつかの会社の組織間の壁(Silo)を破っていったかという、実例っぽいような物語。最後の章のみ、具体的に物事どう進めるかが書いてあり、忙しい方はここを読めば、十分。ポイントがすっきりまとまっているので、すぐ読めます。複数の組織間で共通のゴールを設定し、優先順位を絞り、その手段と進捗を共有していきましょうという、バランススコアカードっぽい印象もあり。戦略のマネジメント、アラインメントなどに苦労している方には、参考になる。リーダーシップの重要性が書いてあるので、本当は会社の役員クラスに読んで欲しいと思う。

In many ways Silos, Politics and Turf Wars reminded me of books like "Gung Ho" and "Monday Morning Leadership" in that it is a story based management book. The reader follows the life and times of Jude Cousins, a once fast rising manager, now turned independent consultant, as he attempts to navigate his way through the gnarly infrastructures of silo-laden clients while earning a living and raising a family.By itself, the story is both entertaining and informative as Author Patrick Lencioni weaves personal and business challenges and complications in and out of the story. This exposes the reader to a series of events that build to a successful conclusion (of course). It is a formula that works well because it is easier, and more realitic, to remember the context of a story than to remember text without a story, because you are thinking along, and learning with, and even morphing into Jude with every turn of the page.This part of the well-written, easy-to-read book would have been worth the price to buy it and the time to read it.However, the best part of the book for me were the final twenty pages which provided the reader with the thought process and the tools to tear down the silos, and eliminate the politics and turf wars, by identifying and implementing overarching organizational thematic goals. This is the "how to do it" part of the book, complete with excellent case study models to help you make it work in your own business.When you can read a book that provides practical assistance that is immediately usuable, you have a winner, which "Silos, Politics and Turf Wars" surely is.

I enjoyed the fable but the thing I loved most about this book were the chapters at the end that explained the whole system, and the examples of different organisations' use of the Thematic Goal.4-star fable - 5 star idea.