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]]> By: DCM http://womengrowbusiness.com/2009/08/small-business-silos-the-chief-troublemaker-asks-does-your-corporate-underground-match-your-company%e2%80%99s-size-and-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-577 DCM Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:53:31 +0000 http://www.womengrowbusiness.com/?p=2305#comment-577 In the military we've come to refer to "Stovepipes" as "Cylinders of Excellence" with the goal of waking up the folks inside those stovepipes and to remind them we are a team, they have a role in the entire big picture, and it is starting to work for us. It's not an insult, just a way to get folks thinking.<br><br>I personally spend time learning and paying attention to other divisions within our organization looking for synergies or opportunities to work together with others to get the mission done and stretch out our limited resources for the best possible return.<br><br>To answer your question: the military has a lot of professional military education "PME" and encourages working together. Like the Japanese factory workers, we also do physical fitness together. The bigger your organization gets, the more a leader has to work at keeping people on the team and to breakdown their cylinders, stovepipes, functional area or perhaps what it really is: selfishness. In the military we've come to refer to “Stovepipes” as “Cylinders of Excellence” with the goal of waking up the folks inside those stovepipes and to remind them we are a team, they have a role in the entire big picture, and it is starting to work for us. It's not an insult, just a way to get folks thinking.

I personally spend time learning and paying attention to other divisions within our organization looking for synergies or opportunities to work together with others to get the mission done and stretch out our limited resources for the best possible return.

To answer your question: the military has a lot of professional military education “PME” and encourages working together. Like the Japanese factory workers, we also do physical fitness together. The bigger your organization gets, the more a leader has to work at keeping people on the team and to breakdown their cylinders, stovepipes, functional area or perhaps what it really is: selfishness.

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