The barriers will become more detectable if one increases the interdependence of decisions in organizations and changes over from conditional programming to goal-directed programming. Power then acts less and less as a mechanism for transferring selections.

XREF: Connects to systems thinking and organizational design theory about decentralized vs. centralized control structures. QUESTION: What does 'transferring selections' operationally mean here? The language is abstract — worth tracing how power concentrates through decision selection vs. goal-setting.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 807