silo mentality - definition NOUN
Contribute to our Open Dictionary From our crowdsourced Open Dictionary an attitude within an organization when the different sections or departments do not share information properly because they do not want to share success with others, with the result that the organization is not efficient of a corporation's financial staffs are in a unique position to battle silo mentality, tunnel vision or tribalism (other synonyms for the same affliction), wherever it appears. Submitted from United Kingdom on 06/02/2013
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fast fashion
consanguineous
cheap clothing produced quickly and sold by large, mass-
related by blood, descending from the same ancestor
market retailers in order to respond to the latest fashion trends
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