The Silo Effect: Why Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to Survive

Engagingly written, this is also a history of our need to classify the world and how that can be our downfall
Here's a piece of advice: read The Silo Effect, if only because your boss may already be immersed in Gillian Tett's latest study on how organisations can go badly awry. You would not want to be caught unawares, now, would you? Also, you might be missing something rather brilliant. Yes, honestly . . . Tett's anthropological approach adds academic rigour and richness'
A profound idea, richly analyzed
Highly intelligent, enjoyable and enlivened by a string of vivid case studies. It is also genuinely important . . . her prescription for curing the pathological silo-isation of business and government is refreshingly unorthodox and, in my view, convincing
This is not just a business book
Gillian Tett is a gifted, innovative and informative writer . . . Tett writes beautifully and her book is full of insights. Those who do not know her work should make up for the oversight
Supremely wise
Useful for work - and for life
'Gillian Tett is a gifted, innovative and informative writer . . . Tett writes beautifully and her book is full of insights' Vince Cable, New Statesman

Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, but it can also be catastrophic, leading to unnecessary internal competition and a resistance to sharing new ideas.

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.


'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' Financial Times

'Here's a piece of advice: read The Silo Effect, if only because your boss may already be immersed in Gillian Tett's latest study on how organisations can go badly awry. You would not want to be caught unawares, now, would you? Also, you might be missing something rather brilliant. Yes, honestly . . . Tett's anthropological approach adds academic rigour and richness' Anne Ashworth,The Times