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The computer stores mountains of information which it communicates worldwide through an enormous bandwidth. We must learn to exercise severe, intelligent selectivity in mining our data mountains, and to communicate information in ways that will inform and not bury the recipients.

This is today’s task of organizational design. Organizing combines human efforts efficiently, dividing the undertaking into separate but interdependent tasks and securing good coordination in their performance. An effective organization and its buildings balance opportunity for reflective deliberation against opportunity for mutual exchange of ideas and information. That balance is lost if talk drowns out silence. In our time, silence is unlikely to drown out talk.

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Simon, H.A. (1999). A Time for Talk and a Time for Silence. In: Streitz, N.A., Siegel, J., Hartkopf, V., Konomi, S. (eds) Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture. CoBuild 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10705432_1

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