The collective decides...

Landry, Charles; Morley, David; Southwood, Russell; Wright, Patrick
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX4174B-CollectiveDecides.htm

Publisher:  Connexions Information Sharing Services, Toronto, Canada
Year Published:  1991  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX4174B

The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance

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