12ROLES IN THE ORGANIZATION

A tree, any tree, is composed of many parts; it has green leaves, responsible for reproduction, and it has roots that are in charge of sustenance and ensuring that the tree is supplied with all it needs for optimal growth. There are also branches, tissue, a trunk, possibly flowers and fruit, and many additional components, each playing a role in turning the tree into what we consider a tree.

Surprisingly, a tree has no head; no leader or manager in charge of orchestrating the different components, telling them what to do and how to do it or monitoring their activities.

Trees are not an exceptional headless model. The Internet, like many other compound systems, does not have any one manager in charge.

So, when we come ...

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