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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 An Organizational Suggestion for Large Occupations (1 comments)
As groups of people become larger they tend to reach a critical mass where informal organizational methods become increasingly ineffective. They become more susceptible to frustration, disillusion, and disintegration through endless disputation, distraction, cooptation, manipulation, and subversion. An effective occupation needs democratic, bottom-up organization!