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Concentrating too much power in any single office of a hierarchy creates a decision making bottleneck that can cripple the organization, so the tree structure that is optimal for transmitting orders downward is also its point of paralysis.

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However, if too much power is held in any single office in the hierarchy, de- cision making finds a bottleneck that can cripple the organization.

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, p. 3
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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

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centralized tree structures with concentrated decision rights

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: Decision-making bottleneckfamily: recentralization-driftdecentralization

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