Clay Shirky posted an interesting talk quite a while back that gets into some of this - "A group is its own worst enemy". https://web.archive.org/web/2003071313

Clay Shirky posted an interesting talk quite a while back that gets into some of this - "A group is its own worst enemy". https://web.archive.org/web/20030713130936/http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html https://web.archive.org/web/20030713130936/http://shirky.com...