[A]n organization that can't rely on the free loyalty of its members is
forced to rely on
gesellschaft. On industrial methods.
...And that means rule books, laws, stiff formal hierarchies....
Centralized bureaucracies always protect the status quo. They don't
innovate.
...Creativity comes from small groups. Small groups gave us the
electric light, the automobile, the personal computer. Bureaucracies
gave us the nuclear power plant, traffic jams, and network television.
-- Bruce Sterling. Island in the Net (1988) p.47.