The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer An Economist Book of the

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The authors conclude that China now presents a challenge to America's strategic position of such magnitude that Washington must compete in earnest

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who had almost single-handedly fought off a Japanese force of three thousand on Guadalcanal

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The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer An Economist Book of theAward 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