This book explains how hierarchies threaten to destroy human society - and how they could all be replaced with a new organizational paradigm that is non-hierarchic and free of bureaucracy. Buckminster Fuller said: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Clyde Cleveland, the author of Common Sense Revisited says of FLOURISH : "This book is powerful beyond description... I have never read any book or heard anyone describe our present system and its faults as clearly as Robert Podolsky does in this...