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The Silo Effect - Why Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to Survive (Paperback)
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The Silo Effect - Why Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to Survive (Paperback)
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Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to
classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more
efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of
confidence that they have the right people focusing on the right
tasks. But it can also be catastrophic, leading to tunnel vision
and tribalism. Most importantly it can create a structural fog,
with the full picture of where an organisation is heading hidden
from view. It is incredibly widespread: the chances are these
'silos' are rife in any organisation or profession, whether your
business, or your local school or hospital. Across industries and
cultures, as this brilliant and penetrating book shows, silos have
the power to collapse companies and destabilise financial markets,
yet they still dominate the workplace. They blind and confuse us,
often making modern institutions act in risky, silly and damaging
ways. Gillian Tett has spent years covering financial markets and
business, but she's also a trained anthropologist, having completed
a doctorate at Cambridge University and conducted field work in
Tibet and Tajikistan. She's no stranger to questioning the
assumptions and practices of a culture. Those in question -
financial trading desks, urban police forces, surgical teams within
medical clinics, software debuggers and consumer product engineers
- have practices and rituals as ordered and intricate as those of
any far-flung tribe. In The Silo Effect, she uses an
anthropological lens to explore how individuals, teams and whole
organisations often work in silos of thought, process and product.
With examples drawn from a range of fascinating areas - the New
York Fire Department and Facebook to the Bank of England and Sony -
these narratives illustrate not just how foolishly people can
behave when they are mastered by silos but also how the brightest
institutions and individuals can master them. The Silo Effect is a
sharp, visionary and inspiring work with the insight, prescriptions
and power to remove our organisational blinders and transform the
way we think for the better.
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