You want people to know one another

F. Mark Gumz is the president and CEO of the Olympus Corporation of the Americas.  He offers the following comments on organizational culture --

We had a lot of new people, and because they were new, they didn't have a real deep relationship with the company.  I sensed that because of our different businesses, a lot of silos had been created.  I wanted to knock the silos down.

So I made an effort to do that, initially tying people together at the wallet - - with part of their compensation based on the company's overall performance - - and  I focused on getting people to share processes from different parts of the organization.

You want people to know one another.  If you pull people together and share how they do things, they work better.