TWO DISRUPTIONS OF THE COMMUNICATION ZONE: A DISCUSSION OF ACTION AND ROLE PLAYING TECHNIQUES
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An organization is a place where, by definition, a hierarchical structure (1, 2) is implicit, whether it be intended to produce a product (e.g., in industry), information (e.g., scientific group), or to help regulate human intercourse (e.g., government or law) (3). The leaderless organization is either a misnomer or an expedient delusion. Occasionally, an organization can appear to be leaderless if the leader is other than the individual officially designated, or duly elected, or if the leadership function is a transient one and rapidly rotates among several or all of the participants. Thus, the role of leader at a particular moment may be identical with the speaker at that moment. It is also possible that no one chooses. to speak as leader from time to time.
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