O Fim do Poder (como até hoje o conhecemos) [eng]

The Obsolescence of the Power Paradigm

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Em 1998 Antonieta Costa, na investigação que realizou ao modelo de organização social presente nas Irmandades do Espírito Santo dos Açores, escreveu o que era impensável no mundo empresarial de há 11 anos atrás: um modelo de organização sem hierarquias. Entretanto o mundo mudou. Esse "modelo utópico" está gradualmente a tornar-se o novo paradigma das organizações do séc. XXI.

"Power became a problem when we understood that it contradicts all social processes, thoughts and relations among people. The simplest interaction between two people becomes a stage of battle where each one pretends to establish the "truth" about whatever was being in question. (...) the establishment of the "truth" is always dependent on a super-entity who gives the last word, an authority who reinforces the moral rightness, a hierarchical system to whom common man can resort to, in order to
"learn" how the order of the things is established, how it must be done, how everybody should behave. A society functioning under principles different from these is unforeseen and even unthinkable. (...).