Opinion | Silo Deconstruction Underway

Talk to veterans in the risk management field -- the leaders, that is -- and you have a good chance of hearing about the dangers of silos.

If a given coterie within an organization is creating its own separate culture and shielding that culture from upper management or from other coworkers, they’ve created a silo.

Good, active managers delight in blowing up silos, because they know that it is only through transparency, collaboration and meaningful, committed teamwork that success is achieved.

Workplace silo destruction is risk management, straight up. Willful silo construction within a team is duplicitous. You can’t be a collaborator and a silo builder. You’re either one or the other. There really is no other way, if you’re going to be moral in how you achieve success.