Corporate Culture

How to Escape a Silo Culture

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Improve your business by tackling the negativity of silos

By The Blinkist Curators

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Corporate Culture Management & Leadership

Siloing happens when individual teams don't communicate across the business, and it's an unfortunate cause of a lot of common workplace tensions. Silos can be a legacy of earlier organizational structures, or be an indication of underlying issues—but from a leadership perspective, siloing creates a lack of cohesion and teamwork. The good news? You can drive change away from siloing and this collection provides strategies and tips to avoid it, keep your team motivated, and ensure old habits don’t return.

How to Escape a Silo Culture

Improve your business by tackling the negativity of silos

Gamification for Business

Gamification for Business

Sune Gudiksen, Jake Inlove

Why Innovators and Changemakers Use Games to Break Down Silos, Drive Engagement and Build Trust

Leading Without Authority

Leading Without Authority

Keith Ferrazzi with Noel Weyrich

How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration

The Culture Engine

The Culture Engine

S. Chris Edmonds

A Framework for Driving Results, Inspiring Your Employees, and Transforming Your Workplace

The Wise Company

The Wise Company

Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi

How Companies Create Continuous Innovation

Cal Henderson: Communication and Teamwork

Cal Henderson: Communication and Teamwork

Communication and teamwork are key to the success of any project—so who better than Cal Henderson, the co-founder of Slack, the ubiquitous business communication platform, to talk about how important it is. Cal and Slack's story is incredible, and is a shining example of how the relationships we build with our team and the way we communicate can hold just as much, if not more, value than the business or project we are working on. In this episode learn more about how Slack was founded, how important communication is in business, and what this communication will look like in the future.

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