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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 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”?
Gillian Tett, “a first-rate journalist and a good storyteller” ( 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 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.
“Highly intelligent, enjoyable, and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies…. The Silo Effect 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” ( Financial Times ). This is “an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations” ( Publishers Weekly ).
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Praise for THE SILO EFFECT
“Highly intelligent, enjoyable and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies. It is also genuinely important, because her prescription for curing the pathological silo isation of business and government isr efreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing.” — *Financial Times*
“A complex topic and lively writing make this an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations.” — *Publishers Weekly*
"In“The Silo Effect” she 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*
"’Silo’has become a cliché among management consultants—and executives trying to hang onto their jobs by speaking the language of the au courant —but Tett gives the metaphor life in her engaging, case study filled new book.” — *New York Post*
“ The Silo Effect comes across in print much as Tett comes across in person—sharp, insightful, and concise. And the book, which is informed as much by her training as an academic anthropologist as by her experience covering the global financial crisis, is an excellent attempt to help both organizations and individuals figure out how to harness the benefits of specialization without creating tunnel vision.” *—Strategy+Business*
“The Silo Effect comes across in print much as Tett comesacross in person—sharp, insightful, and concise. And the book…is an excellentattempt to help both organizations and individuals figure out how to harnessthe benefits of specialization without creating tunnelvision.” *—Strategy+Business*
“A complex topic and lively writing make this an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Highly intelligent, enjoyable and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies. It is also genuinely important, because her prescription for curing the pathological silo isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing.” (Financial Times)
"In “The Silo Effect” she 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)
"’Silo’ has become a cliché among management consultants—and executives trying to hang onto their jobs by speaking the language of the au courant —but Tett gives the metaphor life in her engaging, case study filled new book.” (New York Post)
Praise for THE SILO EFFECT
“Highly intelligent, enjoyable and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies. It is also genuinely important, because her prescription for curing the pathological silo isation of business and government isr efreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing.” — *Financial Times*
“A complex topic and lively writing make this an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations.” — *Publishers Weekly*
"In“The Silo Effect” she 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*
"’Silo’has become a cliché among management consultants—and executives trying to hang onto their jobs by speaking the language of the au courant —but Tett gives the metaphor life in her engaging, case study filled new book.” — *New York Post*
“ The Silo Effect comes across in print much as Tett comes across in person—sharp, insightful, and concise. And the book, which is informed as much by her training as an academic anthropologist as by her experience covering the global financial crisis, is an excellent attempt to help both organizations and individuals figure out how to harness the benefits of specialization without creating tunnel vision.” *—Strategy+Business*
Praise for FOOL’S GOLD
“To understand the calamity on Wall Street, we need erudite financial analysis and good old fashioned stories about human fallibility. Gillian Tett, who oversees global market coverage for The Financial Times, offers some of each. She shows us the financial world through the eyes of her talented but short sighted subjects. The author excels at recreating this fevered environment. She also deciphers Wall Street mumbo jumbo in terms that a lay reader, or at least a determined lay reader, can understand.”— The New York Times Book Review
“The physics of finance is complex, but Tett explains the world of derivatives as well as any book for lay readers ever has.”— Time
“Tett, a Financial Times reporter who covered the credit markets, was one of the few people to have seen the implosion coming. She was perfectly placed to follow the story as it happened, and to pull together the story of how we got here. There are a number of different ways of peeling this particular onion; Tett does so through the J. P. Morgan team that helped create the new credit derivatives. These lie at the heart of the current crisis, and Tett’s account of their invention and dispersal makes Fool’s Gold a gripping and indispensable book.”— The New Yorker
“I can’t imagine a better vehicle to tell the story of credit derivatives—the financial instruments that laid the groundwork for the financial crisis—than the one Gillian Tett uses in Fool’s Gold. The author, a top reporter and columnist for the Financial Times, views the whole mess through the prism of a single company: JPMorgan Chase…she has a good story here, too, taking us inside the genesis of the crisis. It all began at a Boca Raton hotel in 1994, where a rambunctious crew of idealistic bankers broke noses, threw bosses into the pool, and conceptualized the financial product that would cause the near destruction of the world economy a little more than a decade later. It’s fascinating to follow this crew over the next fifteen years, as they navigate the shoals created by their own invention.”— Columbia Journalism Review
“Ms. Tett was in the vanguard of those who foresaw the implosion in the credit markets. And in Fool’s Gold…she deftly explicates Wall Street dynamics… At the heart of Fool’s Gold is Ms. Tett’s portrait of the high octane culture at J.P. Morgan in the 1990s. She shows the premium that young hotshots there placed on “innovation” and “creativity,” and… her book starkly illustrates the folly of using mathematical models to predict human behavior and the Las Vegas like bet making embraced by many bankers.” — The New York Times
“[Tett] does an excellent job of assembling the facts. Her clear and simple accounts of complicated financial instruments are superb.”— Wall Street Journal
“In a major irony alert, Tett details how many of the derivatives that helped crash the economy were cooked up by the brains at…J.P. Morgan. The concepts were then taken by the rest of Wall Street, and WaMu, and you know what happened. Tett had access to Morgan executives, including Dimon. It’s a riveting read.”— Seattle Times
“Fool's Gold is a welcome and engaging read. Tett digs down to its origins in a carefully researched account, guided by in depth access to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and several of the members of the JPMorgan team. Tett steadily unravels how what began as an alcohol fueled, youthful brainstorming getaway by several dozen young bankers who worked for the “swaps” department—a corner of the derivatives universe that was one of the fastest growing areas of finance—went haywire.”— USA Today
“Gillian Tett's Fool’s Gold finds a nice middle ground between gripping narrative and detached analysis.”— Newsweek
“The book comes closer than anything I've read to nailing down the connection between the rise of credit default swaps and all the craziness in housing finance.”— The Curious Capitalist (Time.com blog)
“Of the crop of books that aim to make sense of the global financial crisis, few are more lucid than Gillian Tett's Fool’s Gold.”— Newsweek
“The Silo Effect comes across in print much as Tett comesacross in person—sharp, insightful, and concise. And the book…is an excellentattempt to help both organizations and individuals figure out how to harnessthe benefits of specialization without creating tunnelvision.” *—Strategy+Business*
“A complex topic and lively writing make this an enjoyable call to action for better integration within organizations.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Highly intelligent, enjoyable and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies. It is also genuinely important, because her prescription for curing the pathological silo isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing.” (Financial Times)
"In “The Silo Effect” she 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)
"’Silo’ has become a cliché among management consultants—and executives trying to hang onto their jobs by speaking the language of the au courant —but Tett gives the metaphor life in her engaging, case study filled new book.” (New York Post)
"Gillian Tett’s stories in The Silo Effect will help us see and examine our own silos, both mental and organizational, in a whole new light, and begin to master them so that they won’t master and divide us." (800CEOREADS)
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