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“Keep organizational boundaries flexible and fluid; use technology to disrupt them; share data and let different interpretations of it be heard; tie compensation to collaboration; reimagine corporate taxonomies and experiment with new ones. These are high-level, top-down recommendations. But she also has a few tips for any manager eager to fight silos from the bottom up: Think like an anthropologist—with curiosity, healthy cynicism, and an appreciation for how things relate to one another so that you’re able to recognize when systems no longer make sense. Also, consider jumping across a corporate or social divide yourself once in a while.”