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

by Gillian Tett

Book Overview

Award-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" (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments--silos--hinders our work.

The Silo Effect asks a basic question: why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451644744
• ISBN13: 9781451644746
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.5"