The Tyranny of Structurelessness

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1970 · organization essay · original online
WhatEssay on informal power in groups.
Why nowFlat groups still grow hidden hierarchies.
Statusoriginal online
Found inweird useful corners

Jo Freeman argues that rejecting explicit structure often produces unaccountable informal structure instead.

WHY IT STILL MATTERSIt gives language to a recurring failure mode in collectives, startups, movements, and online communities.
Best opened whenever “we have no hierarchy” is said with a little too much confidence.
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