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http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

The full article. Her point seems to really boil down to this:

   We cannot decide whether to have a structured or
  structureless group, only whether or not to have a
  formally structured one. Therefore the word will not be
  used any longer except to refer to the idea it
  represents. Unstructured will refer to those groups
  which have not been deliberately structured in a
  particular manner. Structured will refer to those which
  have. A Structured group always has formal structure,
  and may also have an informal, or covert, structure. It
  is this informal structure, particularly in
  Unstructured groups, which forms the basis for elites.
And she continues on, the next section is particularly, interesting, describing how these elites she refer to create a network of communication which others aren't party to.

I really recommend reading the whole thing. It's a pretty interesting article and, I think, gets at the problems (solvable in some or many cases) in any large organization, structureless or not.

EDIT: And do read the article. It's much more than just the snippet I included. That's just her thesis, the rest explains it better and the consequences of insisting on informal organization.




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