**Pattern Name:**
Partners
**Introduction:**
Volunteers can partner. Associations can partner.
Agreements, competency, and coordination are the basis for productivity, not necessarily employment or hierarchy.
**Illustration:**
**CONTEXT:**
Big business and big government aggregate large numbers of people inside and large suppliers outside.
**PROBLEM:**
**Disorganized citizens will lose capability to big business and big government until they can out organize outsiders.**
**Forces:**
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**Explicit voluntary partnerships (networks) can sometimes outperform rigid contractual organizations. We must learn how to temporarily yet formally organize the informal.**
**Actions:**
**Consequences:**
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Notes:
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