The silo metaphor continues, with the individual computer-silos on each person s desk. What is needed is a spider web rather than a silo. People need interconnection rather than isolation. The call for community is heard throughout organizations. Robert Zarefsky says that many voices have risen to urge that society cultivate a stronger sense of responsibilities and obligations to match freedoms and rights rekindling a sense of community at every level, from the local to the national.
Community is needed for multiple reasons.
It improves an individual s physical and emotional well-being. It is hard to believe that all those meetings are health-giving, but in fact they provide the sense of community and connection. Hallowell reports on the physiological reason for the increase in health. When people are in community, they experience an increase in hormones that promote trust and bonding. These bonding hormones are at suppressed levels when people are physically separate.