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From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes an excellent study of how our inclination to create efficient departments - silos - hinders our work and how many people and organizations can break those silos right down to unleash innovation. One of the characteristics of industrial-age companies is that they are organized around efficient departments. This organizational framework ends in both limited information and restricted pondering. The Silo Effect asks these basic questions: Why do humans working in modern companies collectively act in ways that sometimes appear ridiculous? Why do normally smart people neglect to see hazards and opportunities that later appear blindingly apparent? Why, as psychologist Daniel Kahneman input it, are we sometimes so "blind to our own blindness"? Gillian Tett, journalist and older editor for the Financial Times, right answers these questions by plumbing related her background as an anthropologist and her experience confirming on the financial meltdown in 2008. In The Silo Effect, she stocks eight different tales of the silo symptoms, spanning Bloomberg's City Hall in New York, the Bank of Great britain in London, Cleveland Medical clinic hospital in Ohio, UBS loan provider in Switzerland, Facebook in San Francisco, Sony in Tokyo, the BlueMountain hedge account, and the Chicago police force. Some of these narratives demonstrate how foolishly people can respond when they are perfected by silos. Others, however, show how companies and individuals can grasp their silos instead. They are stories of failing and success. From ideas about how exactly to organize office spaces and lead clubs of individuals with disparate knowledge, Tett lays bare the silo effect and points out how people set up themselves, connect to each other, and picture the world may take hold of an organization and business lead from institutional blindness to 20/20 eye-sight.
