ABSTRACT
One of the problems of large organizations is that it is difficult to keep large purposes before the minds of small people. The lust for life even in organizations is very strong. It is even becoming an increasing problem for persons, as we find that the medical profession is increasingly devoting its expensive energies towards keeping alive people who, though it seems harsh to say it, would be better off dead. In a hierarchy there is an inescapable tendency toward pleasing the superior, and hence confirming his own ideas. Hierarchy in organizations, therefore, produces a condition akin to paranoia in individuals. The greatest dilemma of the corporation, especially the large corporation, is that it is all too likely to have expelled for insubordination at the age of thirty, the man who ought to be its president at the age of fifty-five.
