The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
Gillian Tett, author of The Silo Effect, comes to business from an interesting background: she trained as an anthropologist, earning a PhD from Cambridge
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Gillian Tett, author of The Silo Effect, comes to business from an interesting background: she trained as an anthropologist, earning a PhD from Cambridge
Journalist Gillian Tett urges business leaders to look at their world through a different lens.
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She wrote her dirz dissertation on a small goat-herding village. she now looks with an anthropologist eye at wall street. when she looks at these bankers and businessmen she sees people focused on their own specialized narrow businesses never noticing what their practices and products do to the economy as a whole. that was one of the underlying causes of the financial crisis. she calls this problem the silo effect. she's written a book saying it's not just in finance but business in general that people get trapped inside their groups and subcultures instead of thinking outside the box, or outs...
Federal reserve chair janet yellen announced yesterday the fed is delaying any rate increase for now. stocks fell sharply today, nearly trading as a result down 221 now. joining me from new york to discuss this and other issues, the u.s. managing editor of the "financial times" and author of "silo effect." thanks very much. was this decision overblown? how did they get so ramped up that a small rate increase, albeit the first in years and years, became such a big deal? does it matter whether it's now, whether it's in december? what is your take-away? >> here's the issue. the reason it's such a...