>Then those useless "be a team player and syngerize the verticals while the rubber hits the road" monkey-morons came in and had to fucking siloize everything, j

>Then those useless "be a team player and syngerize the verticals while the rubber hits the road" monkey-morons came in and had to fucking siloize everything, just to play a divide-and-conquer game, create the sense that we were incapable of handling "the big picture", and reduce our bargaining power. This distracts us from the fact that those people aren't at all necessary. So true. I worked in a largely silo-free environment up until about 2007. New management transformed an effective ~25 person team into half a dozen kingdoms of 30+ each in a little over one year. I left and discovered just how unique my environment had been prior to the regime change. It's hard for me to imagine how any organization which has gone down this path can hope to reverse it. It's desirable to both the managers who use it make themselves relevant and an unfortunate majority of workers who take comfort in their pigeon-holes.