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   "text": "Centralization has two major flaws that inevitably lead to its downfall; the first is that every centralized organization has a single point of failure, binding the organization to a leader's poor decisions when that leader lacks information, skill, wisdom, or charisma.",
   "abstract": "Centralization comes with two major flaws that inevi- tably lead to its downfall. First, every centralized organization has a single point of failure.",
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   "text": "Decentralized organizations naturally respond to information at the edge and are energized rather than weakened when their leaders are attacked, because decentralized rebellions are strengthened by the loss of leaders who become martyrs.",
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   "text": "The Spanish strategy of capturing or killing a group's leader, which succeeded against the Aztec and Incan empires, was impossible to apply to the Apaches because they had no static, official rulers and no rigid power hierarchy to manipulate.",
   "abstract": "The Apaches had no static, official rulers, which made it impossible for the Spanish to replay their strategy of killing or controlling the leader of each new territory they invaded. The Apaches had no rigid power hierarchy to manipulate.",
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   "text": "Giving all people more power produces a liquid meritocracy in which leaders are continually rediscovered immediately where and when they are needed, and secure meaningful reputation gives that meritocracy momentum and history.",
   "abstract": "By giving all people more power, we create a system where leaders are continu- ally rediscovered immediately where and when they are needed—we create a liquid meritocracy.",
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