Brilliant book - and loved the reading style

I thought this book was a game changer and the narrator spot on. I've already sent a copy of the book to colleagues and look forward to applying the concepts to my own field.

I also really enjoyed the reading style, the narrator had a charming voice and rhythm which I found engaging.

I'll be highly recommending both book and narrator!

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Good Book Shame about the Narrator

Would you try another book written by Gillian Tett or narrated by Eilidh L. Beaton?

Maybe I shouldnt blame the narrator but one thing spoilt this book for me. Her ridiculous use of accents when quoting real life characters. The French accent sounded like something from "Allo Allo", the Australians from a Fosters add and her American accent was appalling !! And why stop there..why werent the Sony execs given a Japanese Accent? Why didn't she differentiate between Americans from New York, Texas or Illinois... they have different accents . This ruined the whole book for me and made it almost un-listenable to

Who was your favorite character and why?

The 8 stories are interesting.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Eilidh L. Beaton?

Anyone. Although maybe the producer should be blamed.

If this book were a film would you go see it?

Yes, if made into a documentary

Any additional comments?

I still have 1/3 of book to listen to but I had to send a review now I am so frustrated as I think the themes and subject are fascinating

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Hugely enjoyable

Thought provoking and relevant whatever your profession. The ideas and perspective shed light on many of the day to day frustrations we all experience.

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Great with some repetition and dodgy accents

I really enjoyed this but there was some repetition or bits I personally found a bit boring. Overall I found it very enlightening. The accents by the author were terrible, but who cares. Quite amusing really.

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Interesting but makes the same point repeatedly.

A well evidenced and researched book but it does get a bit repetitive. I expected it to be more about human behaviour and reasons why groups form silos. There is some of that but it's predominantly stories about examples of silos in action.

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Useful insight with fascinating anecdotes. Heavy on detail.

I enjoyed hearing the anecdotes about UBS, Sony, NYC Mayors Office, CPD, Facebook and Blue Mountain Capital. But I do think much detail was laboured over in the specialist financial trading descriptions that could have been left out to make the book a little more accessible. The author presents a very clear manifesto for the destruction of harmful silos and even a veritable how-to guide. It's a great book. As for the audiobook, the narrator slips into impressions of each character quoted throughout the story, which jarred me a little at the start as I wasn't prepared for it, but later I came to enjoy it and felt it lent a flavour to the book. Definitely recommended reading.

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detailed but not all relevant

the background detail of exapmles too much that lost point. at times. some key pointers.

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Simplistic, one sided and dated

Silo Effect has dated badly, like much of Tett's recent journalism unhealthy confirmation bias finding glimmers of evidence with no consideration of how silos develop and why they are needed. Tett's examples from outside finance display immaturity and little attempt to understand the context or industry. Financial examples show the presence of silos, but not the critical role of specialist's blindness more the immediate personal financial rewards of silo blinkers in a system that failed to price risks. More consideration of senior management failure to manage across boundaries or leadership failures to develop a culture of respect and open dialogue between silos would move this beyond a simplistic observation by the uninformed to providing insight to help specialists, their managers and their regulators.

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