To the many people who say &quot;this will never work&quot;: luckily, we don&#x27;t have to theorize abstractly about &quot;human nature&quot; and can just go look at successful non-hierarchical organizations. Frederic Laloux describes the practices of 12 of them in the 2nd and 3rd parts of his wonderful book Reinventing Organizations (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reinventingorganizations.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reinventingorganizations.com&#x2F;</a>). Still some very new ideas, but these organizations have enough interesting properties that we should really explore how to make them work.