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Things are decentralizing. Things are
simultaneously centralizing. The power of decentralization is clearest to those
who benefit most from it. The same is true for the forces of aggregation. It's hard to see our economy clearly. Small
companies, the backbone of everything, have always been the backbone of
everything. The small business owner knows this even while the bureaucratic
functionary in a large organization lauds his security and compensation over
the head of the entrepreneur. Small businesses create capital that is given to
banks so that large companies can multiply it. Like lawyers, large organizations
are risk mitigators, whose challenge is not creation but maintenance. This is a
task that small operations routinely fail at. Small organizations make large gains
possible. Large organizations thrive on the incremental. If you asked the supposed 'culprits' at the homes
of the various scandals what in the world they thought they were doing, you'd
most likely hear something like "we were trying to be less risk averse. We
were trying to instill the principles of entrepreneurial strength into our
organizations." It's the paradox. Big organizations have their
purpose and we need them. Little organizations have their purpose and we need
them as well. What we don't need is one acting like the other. Corporations cannot lie. They are not people.
People lie. Worse still, people delude themselves and believe that they are
doing the right thing (remind me, at some point, to tell you about my theory
that evil is the aggregate effect of any group with good intentions). This is
nothing new. What is new is the broad spectrum of
possibilities that have opened up for those of us who are willing to risk our
lives and livelihoods on the bet that we can create better than we will be
given. We take responsibility for things beyond our control and make them into
realities. There are more of us. We have ever better tools. We're pioneers in the heartiest of American
traditions. Where we're headed is unknown. After we've been there a while, the
one thing you can predict with some certainty is that big organizations
will follow. The risk will have been mitigated.
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