{"product_id":"the-silo-effect-the-peril-of-expertise-and-the-promise-of-breaking-down-barriers-9781451644746","title":"The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning journalist Gillian Tett \"applies her anthropologist's lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It's a profound idea, richly analyzed\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), about how our tendency to create functional departments--silos--hinders our work.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silo Effect\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \"blind to our own blindness\"? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGillian Tett, \"a first-rate journalist and a good storyteller\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), answers these questions by plumbing her background as an anthropologist and her experience reporting on the financial crisis in 2008. In \u003ci\u003eThe Silo Effect\u003c\/i\u003e, she shares eight different tales of the silo syndrome, spanning Bloomberg'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Highly intelligent, enjoyable, and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies....\u003ci\u003eThe Silo Effect\u003c\/i\u003e is also genuinely important, because Tett's prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing\" (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e). This is \"an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGillian Tett chairs the editorial board, US, for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and writes columns for the world's leading newspaper covering finance, business, and the political economy. She has been named British Journalist of the Year, Columnist of the Year, and Business Journalist of the Year in the UK and won two Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing awards in the US. She speaks regularly at conferences around the world on finance and global markets and has a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University. Tett is the author of \u003ci\u003eSaving the Sun: How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall St. Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50643403931922,"sku":"9781451644746","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1238487c-aed6-498c-82dd-1d97104d471c.jpg?v=1733084871","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-silo-effect-the-peril-of-expertise-and-the-promise-of-breaking-down-barriers-9781451644746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}