Sentences with phrase «about silos»

You bring up a good point about silos.

I wrote an article in 2013 in which I talked about the silo mentality and some of the ways organizations can make strides in eliminating the structure and behavioral barriers that prevent communication, collaboration and ultimately - success.

I'm going to give them away to the first two people who can help me answer a question I'm stuck on about the Silo series:

Juliette becomes obsessed with figuring out Holston's motivations, and her subsequent determination to uncover the truth about the silo's history and who's really in control of it (which I won't reveal here) creates the powder keg for an uprising within the silo.

Email author Hugh Howey and tell him about your Silo story.

«Then you have the actual reality of it, which is, more players, for everyone, means more games, and more games means more participation and community feedback, which we can then put into the game as a whole and not have to worry about siloing off certain features of certain platforms because this version doesn't have it, or whatever the situation may be,» said Dunham.

Not exact matches

Aggregate context across all the silos, then give it to subject matter experts so that they can make an informed decision about writing content.

These tend to last at least 6 months, with agreed - upon objectives that, at the very least, are getting different silos within the organization talking about what marketing objectives can be accomplished with consistent content creation and distribution.

By Renee Ciulla Green rolls of open hills dotted with lines of solid, red silos and white grazing sheep appeal to and please even those who aren't passionate about farming themselves.

The Cupola is located on 316 Route 100 just about a half a mile from the south entrance next to The Silo.

People who cared about tech policy tended to be in one silo and people who cared about banking policy were in another.

The committee also recommended a focus on working strategically across «departmental silos» and a more public discussion about how public spending is divided between what its report called «entitlement and investment priorities».

Those rocks are hauled to a massive crushing facility, a warren of tubes and conveyer belts that ultimately lead to a silo where the ore gets pounded into pieces about three - eighths of inch wide.

Silo cap The only thing visible aboveground is a concrete cap with blast - proof windows, built to withstand a shock wave traveling more than 2,000 miles an hour — about what a nuclear detonation would produce.

Disciplinary silos are problematic because any attempt to understand anything about plants or animals needs to be rooted in microbiology.

And, you see, we can't think about our infrastructure in silos.

In fact, this thriller about a renegade missile terrorist, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, never leaves the silo.

Director Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser will be in attendance at the screening of this new documentary film based on Schlosser's book of the same name, about the 1980 accident in an Arkansas missile silo that nearly caused a nuclear catastrophe.

«We may think about teaching domains in silos, but children's brains don't develop that way.»

Onboarding fails to continue throughout an employee's career and teach employees about other business silos.

«When I think about what the sector needs, it's people who are able to be boundary - spanners and to work across silos and differences.

That lesson from No Child Left Behind, combined with the continued concern about America's economic competitiveness, set the stage for the current Common Core Standards Initiative — an initiative by state leaders now convinced that individual state silos are not the way to go when it comes to setting standards.

Professionals from a range of industries, including electrical engineering and cryptography, spoke to students about the pace of change in their world, how different silos of knowledge come together to form STEM, and specific issues and problems they face.

The challenge for researchers is that when schools set about normalising the use of technology across the whole school and all activities, the silo - like organisation of 20th Century schools breaks down.

After all, reformers (along with traditionalists) go on an on about the importance of «teacher's voice» in shaping the transformation of American public education — even though the reality of how teachers work (in silos, out of sight of one another, often without the strong subject - matter competency needed to help kids succeed) makes them far less expert on education than they may think.

And what's amazing about this is the fact that usually, these individuals or their organizations exist in silos.

One of our intentions is to be a laboratory school for San Francisco and the Exploratorium and beyond, so that the work we're doing and what we're learning isn't done in a silo or on an island of privilege, serving just a small number of kids, but rather the curriculum we're developing, what we're learning about inquiry, the individualized learning plans, everything we're doing is open - source, so our impact can be broader than just the four walls of our building.»

«The Smart City Challenge required each city to think about transportation as cross-functional, not in silos, but as a transportation ecosystem.

Hugh Howey is a self - published author who leveraged Kindle Direct Publishing to distribute his Silo Saga about a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

I blew through the Silo series this past week or two (I know, I'm wicked late to the party) and am more than ready and willing to see what Molly Fyde is all about.

The South Florida author created the bestselling Silo series about a subterranean society that evolved when the Earth grew too toxic to sustain life above ground.

The description of the view is one of the only clues Howey provides about the world before the silo was created.

He's even sprinkled a few references to specific fans in his more recent stories, including a mention of the navy ship USS The Sullivans, whose crew — living themselves in something of a «silo at sea» — wrote to him about how much they loved Wool.

Watch this space for an announcement about the ebook that will include all five Silo stories featuring this character, who was introduced by Hugh Howey in SHIFT.

The original story, a longish short story at about 12,500 words, describes a society forced by a toxic atmosphere to live in an underground 144 - story silo.

I don't think people always realize how real the pay gap is, especially when you work in silos and talking about salaries is frowned upon.»

The dog came first, about 10,000 or more years ago, and the cat followed about 5000 years ago, when Egyptians enticed him to dine on rodents that ate the grains stored in silos.

Havoc is a broad term here as you can do just about anything, like saving abductees, blowing up silos full of Bliss, blowing up gas stations, hijacking oil rigs, and so forth.

In 2010 he began an online project called «The Silo» to publish brief essays about the artists he has rediscovered or, in some cases, reinterpreted - what he calls a «revisionist dictionary of contemporary art.»

A great show about this period would be extraordinarily moving, revealing a heterodox New York School that is hardly even whispered about, except in writings on websites like Painters» Table, The Silo, and artcritical.

Before Comer took the podium, art historian Gloria Sutton spoke at length about Stan VanDerBeek, a graduate of 1950s Black Mountain College who built the infamous Movie - Drome, a grain silo turned multimedia screening room, in his Stony Point, NY, backyard.

It is not only bringing experts together, it's also about just breaking down silos — is also, in terms of society, just very important.

He listened to their ideas about identity and historical value as tools to boost economic progress, not hinder it — and this led him to value the silos in a new way.

This makes me work to keep my social media in silos as much as possible, fearing, I suppose, the further loss of privacy if Facebook gossips to Twitter about me and vice versa.

My co-author, Kate Glover, and I used Rod Macdonald's conception of legal pedagogy to posit that undergraduate and graduate legal education should not be polarized and siphoned off into separate silos where, inevitably, much of the conversation about legal education excludes graduate study.

And in doing so it has managed, in a relatively short period of time, to build what feels like its own successful social silo (provided you can forget about that whole it's - a-part-of-Facebook thing).

She aims to start conversations about engaging more consumers in research, increasing the accessibility of research for practitioners and consumers, breaking down research silos and supporting the next generation of health and medical researchers.

These broader conversations about collaborating with partners that deliver solutions outside the care silos will begin in sessions at the Forum in March.