An organisation, he said, is very much like a leather football. (12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal panels in a standard football, by the way.) The people working on each panel know each other, and they also know the people on adjacent panels with whom they interact. A few of them also know what happens on panels a bit further away. But almost nobody knows what happens on the other side of the football.

Source: The Star February 19, 2019 19:41 UTC