“Loosen Up” was the title, but it was the tease line—“When chaos is creative”—that pulled me in to read the article length review in The Christian Century. It was a thought-stimulating presentation of the strengths of decentralized organizations. Much of the article dealt with the relevance to church denominations. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations is the name of the book. In starfish organizations (decentralized) things like knowledge, responsibility, innovation, and motivation are shared throughout the organization. I have trouble picturing “leaderless” as a good thing, but I saw the point of what was said about the starfish and things like trust, tolerance, and even ambiguity.