1. Carl Guarino, a top executive of SEI, a large successful financial services organization, stated, “We reject the idea that because people sit at the top of the organization, power resides with them and control comes down the line. Power is much more diffused and dispersed in this organization.

Power doesn’t come from position, but from influence and the ability to engineer consensus—not in the Japanese sense of unanimity but in terms of the participation and support required to get things done.”56 SEI’s approach violates many of the tenets of bureaucracy. What do you see as the major advantages and disadvantages of this type of organization?