# kaal:claim:3782192-006

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- centralized tree structures with concentrated decision rights

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Introduction to Decentralization* (2021), Overview & Introduction: The process of organizational development, page 3

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782192

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**Failure mode.** Decision-making bottleneck  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** centralization, bottleneck, decision-making, power-concentration

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