Levinson wants to explain why, despite all the resources, talent, energy, and vision, so many very large corporations make bad decisions. Yet, that solution doesn't always work since the failure isn't caused by a single person, but by the nature of the organizational dynamics.
All organizations recapitulate the family structure.
Change often leads to loss, which must be dealt with carefully. All groups follow a leader. Organizations based on family model, partriarchial, loyality, protective, etc. Too much self-presentation without substance. Levinson then draws on his broad knowledge of the internal dynamics of many large corporations to both support his general thesis, and to also elaborate it.