tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1.8316- 2007-12-03T11:27:33Z Comments for Stretching the silo analogy Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1.8316.18040 Comment from Matthias Melcher on 2007-07-05 Matthias Melcher http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/ I think of yet another meaning of "silo": the armored building used during World War II for people to shelter against bomb attacks. (This was for me still a very vivid concept during my childhood because many of them were not yet torn down and I heard many narrations from my parents' generation about the life during bomb nights.)
So for me the analogy of silo mentality also connotes the fear of external threats to a group. In the workgroups context, this includes all sorts of uncertainties, and leads to insulation and demarcation against unwanted accountabilities.

]]> 2007-07-05T19:21:52Z 2007-07-05T19:21:52Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1.8316.18043 Comment from Dave Simmons on 2007-07-06 Dave Simmons Silo analogy - part deux

- Silos are loaded from the top
- Silos need good circulation inside to keep content fresh
- Grain elevators are the resource used to fill 'em. Shut off or redirect the elevator, starve the silo.
- To collapse a ceramic silo, you only need a well-placed hit at the base with a sledgehammer.
- To bridge a silo, you need 2 windows; 1 on each silo.

Okay, I've filled this analogy to the brim.

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