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CM 019: Gillian Tett on Breaking Down Silos
CM 019: Gillian Tett on Breaking Down Silos
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Jan 18, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
When we operate in silos, we narrow our perspective in ways that can limit, and even destroy, innovation. So where have we seen silos before and what can we learn from them?
In this fascinating conversation with Gillian Tett, award-winning journalist and U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times, she explains how silos reversed decades of innovation at Sony, limited innovation in a world-class hospital, and played a key role in the 2007 global financial crisis. Drawing on insights from her bestselling book, The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, she helps us see the patterns that create these tendencies, and the simple steps we can take to avoid or overcome them.
In this episode you will learn:
what makes smart people do apparently stupid things
how rewards and incentives can reinforce a silo mentality
why success can lead to silo perspectives
steps we can take to overcome mental and organizational silos
the value of an insider-outsider perspective
Also in this interview, Gillian encourages us to recognize how the silos begin erected in the information technology industry have begun to mirror those that led to the 2007 global financial crisis.
She is the other of two other bestselling books, Saving the Sun and Fools Gold.
Selected Links to Topics Mentioned
@GillianTett
Octopus Pots
British Press Awards
Cleveland Clinic
Pierre Bourdieu
Mental Maps
Securitizations
Sir Paul Tucker
Paul McCulley
PIMCO
Shadow banking
Zoltan Poszar
Nicolaus Copernicus
Cultural anthropology
Brett Goldstein
Open Table
Toby Cosgrove
Robin Dunbar
It is Complicated by danah boyd
Liquidated by Karen Ho
If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. Thanks for listening!
Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo!
www.gayleallen.net
LinkedIn
@GAllenTC
In this fascinating conversation with Gillian Tett, award-winning journalist and U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times, she explains how silos reversed decades of innovation at Sony, limited innovation in a world-class hospital, and played a key role in the 2007 global financial crisis. Drawing on insights from her bestselling book, The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers, she helps us see the patterns that create these tendencies, and the simple steps we can take to avoid or overcome them.
In this episode you will learn:
what makes smart people do apparently stupid things
how rewards and incentives can reinforce a silo mentality
why success can lead to silo perspectives
steps we can take to overcome mental and organizational silos
the value of an insider-outsider perspective
Also in this interview, Gillian encourages us to recognize how the silos begin erected in the information technology industry have begun to mirror those that led to the 2007 global financial crisis.
She is the other of two other bestselling books, Saving the Sun and Fools Gold.
Selected Links to Topics Mentioned
@GillianTett
Octopus Pots
British Press Awards
Cleveland Clinic
Pierre Bourdieu
Mental Maps
Securitizations
Sir Paul Tucker
Paul McCulley
PIMCO
Shadow banking
Zoltan Poszar
Nicolaus Copernicus
Cultural anthropology
Brett Goldstein
Open Table
Toby Cosgrove
Robin Dunbar
It is Complicated by danah boyd
Liquidated by Karen Ho
If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. Thanks for listening!
Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo!
www.gayleallen.net
@GAllenTC
Released:
Jan 18, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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