Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

Your organization can start tweeting, but that wont change its DNA.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?