Mechanism
Titles disappear while information, projects and reputation concentrate around network gatekeepers.
Enabling conditions
- Formal roles are treated as inherently harmful
- Allocation happens through private networks
Failure modes
- Power becomes hard to challenge
- Low-status work concentrates
Early signals
- • A small group appears in most project starts
- • Dissent is called cultural misfit
Countermeasures
- • Map actual decision rights
- • Make allocation contestable
Diagnostic questions
- 1.Who can block without a title?
- 2.Where is the appeal path?