Machiavelli predicted business silos in 1513, but that doesn't mean you have to be resigned to them

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Check this out, via Harvard Business Review. Here's a quote. Read it and then let's talk context:

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success nor dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemie…