here comes everybody the power of organizing without organizations

None of the absolute advantages of institutions like businesses or schools or governments have disappeared. Simply to exist at that size, an organization has to take on the costs of all that management. As organizations grow into the hundreds or thousands, you also have to manage the managers. If you want to organize the work of even dozens of people, you have to manage them. If you give them more of a reason to do something, they will do more of it, and if you make it easier to do more of something they are already inclined to do, they will also do more of it.

The costs incurred by creating a new group or joining an existing one have collapsed, not just in money but in time, effort and attention. What he did was to work out a message framed in big enough terms to inspire interest, yet achievable enough to inspire confidence. Had he presented his mission in completely self-interested terms ('Help my friend save $300!') or in unattainably general ones ('Let's fight theft everywhere!'), the tools he chose wouldn't have mattered. (Story of blogger helping cellphone-theft victim) : Evan was driven, resourceful, and very angry. Most of the barriers to group action have collapsed, and without those barriers, we are free to explore new ways of gathering together and getting things done. Like Wikinomics and Crowdsourcing, required reading if interested in harnessing the collective power of people online.

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Here comes everybody the power of organizing without organizations