#### #### Links [Transistor](https://share.transistor.fm/s/dfc017ee) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3DBRCVFep0YbYeLPcVVXQv) [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Vzc2VudGlhbC1keW5hbWljcy13aXRoLWRlcmVrLWh1ZHNvbg?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwin24vksc-DAxUNm44IHYKABVcQ9sEGegQIARAG) [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/id1542392917) [Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/3153944) #### Summary Ann, Glen, and Derek talk about the fallacy of breaking up organizations into divisions that inevitably act as silos. #### Concepts - [[Purpose]] - [[The System]] #### Quotes >Organizations crave organizing. Business schools have whole programs on how to organize the organization. >Our tendency to looking at something complex is we're going to break it into pieces and then it is going to be somehow easier to manage or understand. And the problem is that if you have a system that relies on the parts, as soon as you take the parts apart, then you don't have a system. >There's so much lost - and nobody notices how much is lost - by building walls between divisions and competition between divisions. >This idea that we can divide an organization up into pieces in my mind is a fallacy, and it's not challenged enough. >I don't think that the people working in the business ever have the opportunity to work on the business. >Until the leader can see that the creation of value in the business is one system, I don't know that you can see that the white space void exists. >We spend all our time rearranging where the boxes are instead of really understanding the system. #### See also - [[Organization Charts and the Silo Mentality]] - [[Ideas don't have feelings]] %% - Don't look at us, it's that guy... - Managers had to learn to manage people's contribution where they had been historically aligned to manage people in the workspace. - white space void - don't see the system - stuck in the business - management careers supporte tribe - physical separation - managing people presence - not c - operational excellence and control - depends on purpose - steppin back ![[Tribes - Burton]]