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   "text": "Centralization is not the optimal organizational structure under highly dynamic conditions; the very features that make centralized hierarchies efficient become their greatest weaknesses when conditions change.",
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   "text": "Unchecked concentration of power drives the distribution toward one member holding nearly all resources, which is clearly inefficient for the goals of the group, and the resulting discontent is the main historical reason for revolt.",
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   "text": "Even where corruption is avoided, rigidity still leads centralized organizations to catastrophic ends, because failures push members to cling more faithfully to the rules that saved them in the past, making the system still more rigid and brittle.",
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