Power lies at the centre. It is excellent for routine tasks in which stability and predictability are taken for granted, and no one is irreplaceable. Power lies at the top. Resources are drawn from various parts of the network to focus on a particular problem. It is excellent where innovative responses are required and experiments are encouraged.
Power lies in the interstices.
This style is excellent where the talent or skill of the individual is the crucial asset of the organization. Handy points out that the ways of each style are anathema to the others. Linkage between these modes is however essential. He argues that the organization of the future will be a membership organization, multi-purpose and dispersed, combining the search for community, the economics of quality, and the revolution in communications.