One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.
The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.
The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.
