How Silos Learn: Working in the Idea Factory
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Whenever I hear someone take up the cry against organizational silos, I both empathize and cringe. Of course silos are awful and keep us from doing our best work, but when youre in the middle of a siloand maybe that silo is inside ANOTHER silo, all inside slow-moving higher edwell, whats a content strategist to do? With lessons from architecture, the Midwestern landscape, and a hearty dose of humor, well examine how to use our unique positions working in and with higher ed to not only understand our ivory-tower silos but to teach them a thing or two as well.
How Silos Learn: Working in the Idea Factory
- 1. Amanda Costello College of Education and Human Development University of Minnesota @amandaesque Working in the Idea Factory how silos learn
- 9. spoiler alert: You cant report to yourself
- 18. how buildings learnby Stewart Brand
- 19. not only to remain sturdy with age appropriate to its users but to remain as they themselves evolve. -Stewart Brand
- 27. us vs. them
- 29. wreck Efficiency
- 30. I sure hope all of my hard work is being secretly duplicated elsewhere! - No One, Ever
- 31. Reduce Morale
- 32. higher ed
- 33. idea factory
- 34. myth of the lone genius
- 35. myth of the lone genius
- 36. 20% thinkers
- 37. 20 - 40% thinkers
- 40. not enough space
- 41. not enough time
- 43. not enough money
- 44. Athletics!
- 45. 1. resource scarcity 2. Jealousy
- 46. they have something I want
- 47. they have something I want I deserve
- 48. The politics Sayres Law: because the stakes are so vicious are so Low
- 49. silos dipped in crazy sauce
- 50. image: K.C. Green, Gunshow #648
- 52. The Ivory Tower photo by Michael G White
- 53. not only to remain sturdy with age appropriate to its users but to remain as they themselves evolve. -Stewart Brand
- 55. Site (functionally eternal) Structure (30 - 300 years) Skin (20 years) Services (7 - 15 years) Space Plan (3 - 30 years) Stuff (days/months)
- 58. who else?
- 60. Higher Ed Slam Book
- 63. 1. resource scarcity 2. Jealousy
- 68. My Boss Chief of Staff Chief of Staff other
- 70. My Boss Chief of Staff Chief of Staff other
- 72. bad: Fear
- 73. Eric Qualman, Social Media Revolution 2015
- 74. From Flickr User futureatlas.com
- 75. beloit mindset list Class of 2019 mostly born in 1997
- 76. Never licked a stamp
- 77. Assume wi鍖 is an entitlement
- 78. Have no 鍖rst-hand experience with the charismatic celebrity of princess diana
- 80. do the work. Give context. be better.
- 81. You are not literally trapped metal death tube in a
- 83. vomitoxin
- 84. Keep toxic in its silo
- 86. Site (functionally eternal) Structure (30 - 300 years) Skin (20 years) Services (7 - 15 years) Space Plan (3 - 30 years) Stuff (days/months)
- 88. invocation for beginnings Ze Frank
- 89. My pencils are even the dull ones sharp enough, will make a mark. Ze Frank
- 90. life isnt just of waiting for a sequence done. Ze Frank things to be
- 91. Start small
- 92. but Start.
- 93. Lets be in touch amandac@umn.edu @amandaesque Thank you! I can drink lattes forever.