A heavily layered, procedure-oriented bureaucratic structure inhibited necessary communication and action.

The society had its own laws, bureaucratic structure and elective leadership.

In this new approach, institutions can take the shape of a formal bureaucratic structure but also an ideology or an informal custom.

Financial and bureaucratic structures can achieve results only where there are sufficient educated and honest people to make them do so.

The purpose was to provide a mechanism that would maximize inter-organizational communication, consultation, and cooperation, with minimal constraints on the organizations autonomy and minimal bureaucratic structure.