The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of

The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett â€œapplies her anthropologistâ€™s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. Itâ€™s a profound idea, richly analyzedâ€ (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departmentsâ€”silosâ€”hinders our work.

The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that later seem blindingly obvious? Why, as Daniel Kahnemann, the psychologist put it, are we sometimes so â€œblind to our own blindnessâ€?

Gillian Tett, â€œa first-rate journalist and a good storytellerâ€ (The New York Times), answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloombergâ€™s City Hall in New York, the Bank of England in London, Cleveland Clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS bank in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge fund, and the Chicago police. Some of these narratives illustrate how foolishly people can behave when they are mastered by silos. Others, however, show how institutions and individuals can master their silos instead.

â€œHighly intelligent, enjoyable, and enlivened by a string of vivid case studiesâ€¦.The Silo Effect is also genuinely important, because Tettâ€™s prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincingâ€ (Financial Times). This is â€œan enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizationsâ€ (Publishers Weekly).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-01
Format	Kindle eBook

The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers

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