How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose

Related, from https://prachititg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-everyt... > At a management offsite in the late 1990s, a team of well-intentioned junior executives stood up before the company’s top brass and gave a presentation on a problem indigenous to all large organizations: the difficulty of coordinating far-flung divisions. > The junior executives recommended a variety of different techniques to foster crossgroup dialogue and afterward seemed proud of their own ingenuity. Then Jeff Bezos, his face red…

It sounds reasonable, but I think a key requirement of operating like this would be to have solid leaders that will guide the organization in the correct way. This is similar to the best blog post I've ever read on organizations by coda hale [1]. His perspective of viewing an organization like a distributed computing system is enlightening and highly pragmatic. Scaling organizations is hard. To scale well, you need to avoid contention on shared resources and continually work on…