Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors (J-B Lencioni Series) (Hardcover)

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Marketing won’t speak to engineering. Sales thinks production hogs the budget. Front desk believes back room’s lazy. These sorts of turf wars, which turn outwardly unified companies into groupings of uncommunicative “silos,” are the stuff of management lore. According to bestselling author Lencioni (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), “they waste resources, kill productivity and jeopardize the achievement of goals”—they also drive workers into tizzies of frustration. Like his previous books, Lencioni’s latest addresses the management problem through a fictional story; this one revolves around a self-employed consultant named Jude, who has to dismantle silos at an upscale hotel, a techn (more…)