If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.
[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know. " I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.