Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
Interpretation
Rigid organizational structures can hinder collaboration and compromise.
This quote highlights how organizational structures that promote division and long-standing allegiances can lead to entrenched group identities, similar to how political districts may create homogeneous voting blocs. Such environments can stifle collaboration and compromise, making it difficult for diverse ideas and solutions to emerge.
In practice
In a corporate workshop on teamwork, this quote can illustrate the challenges posed by siloed departments.
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
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The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
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In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.
As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
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