Collaboration is not an absolute good.
We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.
Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.