Silos, Politics and Turf Wars..Patrick Lencioni

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars is yet  another page turner, by New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed management expert Patrick Lencioni.  In Silos, Politics and Turf Wars, he  addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the barriers that create organizational politics.  The storyline is about Jude Cousins, an eager young management consultant struggling to launch his practice by solving one of the more universal and frustrating problems faced by his clients.  Marketing won't speak to engineering.  Sales thinks production hogs the budget.  Front desk believes the back room is lazy.  These sorts of turf wars, which turn outwardly unified companies into groupings of uncommunicative silos are the stuff of management lore.

Review...." Lencioni's theory around alignment is simple and powerful and could apply to any type of organization, large or small".  Gary C. Kelly, Vice Chairman and and Chief Exectuive Officer, Southwest Airlines, Co.