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A viable system? Why seven is the magic number when it comes to governance

Dr Walker, who has been working with co-ops for 30 years, says the Group needs to make its operations, including shops, funeral homes and travel agencies, far more autonomous. It must empower members, store managers and staff to make decisions about how local branches are run and central management must serve these operations, helping them work together rather than telling them what to do.

“The traditional hierarchical view is everywhere,” Dr Walker says. “The assumption is that managers are smarter, so they have to tell the workers what to do.

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