The Potential Command Is Momentarily Realized in Him

The members of the whole participative group involved in setting objectives and taking decisions have direct access to each other sibernetically. The symptom is for the network to tend to centralize, so that actions increasingly become referred to one dominant person. Not at all surprisingly, these tendencies ebb and flow in strong correlation with the degrees of stress. In normal managerial circumstances, some one person is known to be ultimately accountable for the group's activity. But as matters become stressful, he becomes capital t, capital b, the boss. And the capital letters are audible too.