Crossword clues for stovepipe
stovepipe
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stovepipe \Stove"pipe`\ (st[=o]v"p[imac]p`), n. Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
Stovepipe hat, A tall silk hat with a brim, worn commonly as an item of formal dress by gentlemen in the late 1800's. [Slang, U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 sheet-metal tubing used as a chimney for a stove or furnace. 2 A channel for information which is compartmentalized in such a manner that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it. vb. To collect or store (information) in a compartmentalized manner, so that some parties who might be interested in its use or be able to utilize it are restricted from accessing it.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Stovepipe may refer to:
- Exhaust pipe
A stovepipe organization has a structure which largely or entirely restricts the flow of information within the organisation to up-down through lines of control, inhibiting or preventing cross-organisational communication. Many traditional, large (especially governmental or transnational) organisations have, or risk falling into having, a stovepipe pattern. Intelligence organisations may deliberately adopt a stovepipe pattern so that a breach or compromise in one area cannot easily spread to others. A famous example of this is Bletchley Park (an allied forces Second World War codebreaking centre where messages encrypted by the Enigma machine were decrypted) where people working in one hut would not know what the people in any other hut did.
A stovepipe pattern is most likely to develop in organisations that have some or all of the following characteristics:
- Very hierarchical with sharply defined roles or areas of influence (e.g. regional sales teams)
- Long reporting lines (i.e. lots of intermediary layers of management) and narrow spans of control (each manager only has a small number of direct reports)
- Departmental organisation of information technology, human resources and similar functions, especially where applications and services are procured departmentally rather than via a central procurement section
- Culture of suspicion or a dictatorial management style
- Multiple sites (or sub sites within a larger site) where staff have little chance to interact on a regular basis with staff from another site
- Formed by the merger of two organisations or the acquisition of one organisation by another
A stovepipe pattern can be very harmful to a commercial organisation as it can lead to duplication of effort in different parts of the organisation and, in extreme cases, unhealthy competition between different branches of the organisation.
Strategies to avoid this can include:
- Centralisation of information technology, human resources, procurement and similar functions
- Short reporting lines
- Decentralised cross functional teams for executing one-time projects and ongoing operations
- Fewer sites or movement of staff between sites
- Increased mobility of staff between teams to promote individual and organizational breadth
- Culture of openness and supportive management style driven from the senior management
- Rapid integration of staff after a merger or acquisition
Usage examples of "stovepipe".
When he reached the shack -- merely a one-roomed hut, with a stovepipe chimney, two windows, and a door -- Christopher stood at the entrance and seemed to illuminate it.
Whistler, wearing a tall, Lincolnesque stovepipe hat, a black dustcoat and round opaque white glasses and looking like nothing so much as a cartoon, launched into a weird Star-Wars Cantina anthem at major decibels on his synthesizer.
Mr Barron took the lids off and looked at the grates to make sure they were intact, and he's buying all the stovepipe we have on hand.
He stands up, digs into his stovepipes and throws a twenty on the bar.
A stovepipe full of knees and elbows emerged from one of the windows of the shop and jutted over the flat roof.
It was a proletarian crowd, women in cheap cotton shirtwaists, men in shirts without collars and wearing flat cloth caps on their heads, not bourgeois homburgs and fedoras or capitalist stovepipes.
However, with the expectation that enough smoke would find its way out of the stovepipe hole to permit us to remain inside, we built a small round Indian fire in the center of the tent.
They were got up as fantastically as the women, though, in the usual hotch-potch of uniforms, with knee breeches, buckled shoes, and even a stovepipe hat thrown in.
It was a simple potting shed, a nondescript little building distinguished from its fellows only by the stovepipe, a stone kiln, and the small, glazed window high up on one side.
I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.
One long, lanky man, with long hair and a big white fur stovepipe hat on the back of his head, and a crooked-handled cane, marked out the places on the ground where Boggs stood and where Sherburn stood, and the people following him around from one place to t'other and watching everything he done, and bobbing their heads to show they understood, and stooping a little and resting their hands on their thighs to watch him mark the places on the ground with his cane.
His hand moved to his sparse silver locks to sweep the stovepipe hat off in an elegant bow, but he let it fall again to his side as he remembered that the ancient hat was now part of the flotsam and jetsam off the New Jersey shore.
Of course, he also carried the archaic, narrow-brimmed stovepipe hat of a shipyard manager.
They ducked under the trembling sec door, Doc Tanner having to stoop considerably to avoid knocking off his stovepipe hat.
He wore the black claw-hammer coat favored by ministers, had a skimpy cotton stock about his neck, and a new ten-inch-high beaver stovepipe hat which tapered inward about five inches above his head and then flared out to a considerable expanse of flatness on top.