 Why is Caswell so confident that his organizational model will cause the group to grow?
Wilton Caswell, Ph.D., was head of my Sociology Department, and right then he was mad enough to chew nails. He had a book in his hand and I was expecting him to throw it, but he spoke instead: "This department's analysis of institutional accretion, by the use of open system mathematics, has been recognized as an outstanding and valuable contribution to—" The words were impressive, whatever they meant, but this still didn't sound like anything that would pull in money. "Institutions—organizations, that is—" his voice became more resonant; like most professors, when he had to explain something he instinctively slipped into his platform lecture mannerisms, and began to deliver an essay—"have certain tendencies built into the way they happen to have been organized, which cause them to expand or contract without reference to the needs they were founded to serve." Such simple questions as, 'Is there a way a holder of authority in this organization can use the power available to him to increase his power?' provide the key. "By these formulations, it is possible to determine automatically the amount of growth and period of life of any organization. I shook hands and left him standing there, sure of his place in the progress of science and the respect of his colleagues, yet seething inside because I, the president and dean, had boorishly demanded that he produce something tangible. "There should be a suitable club—" Picture Professor Caswell, head of the Department of Sociology, and with him the President of the University, leaning across the table toward each other, sipping coffee and talking in conspiratorial tones over something they were writing in a notebook. I pointed out to Caswell the member I thought would be the natural leader, a tall, well-built woman in a green suit, with conscious gestures and a resonant, penetrating voice, and then went into a half doze while Caswell stayed awake beside me and wrote in his notebook. "I think there's a way they could find for it," Caswell whispered back, and went to work on his equation again. After the meeting, Caswell drew the tall woman in the green suit aside and spoke to her confidentially, showing her the diagram of organization we had drawn up. We left the diagram of organization and our typed copy of the new bylaws with her and went off soberly, as befitted two social science experimenters.
 Because he is an expert in human social behavior.
 Because he is an expert in pyramid schemes.  Because he is an expert in socialism.  Because he is an expert in organizational strategies.  Because he is an expert in human social behavior.