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Define "empowerment" and "leverage" (kind of - first attempt)
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# Motivation
[motivation]: #motivation

We lack an optimum level of _empowerment_ on distinct vital aspects for
the best [leverage](https://nav.al/least). We don't have:
We lack an optimum level of _empowerment_<sup>[1](#empowerment)</sup> on distinct vital aspects for
the best [leverage](https://nav.al/least)<sup>[2](#leverage)</sup>. We don't have:

- Efficient Management Processes, that bias the whole community towards
_coordinated and optimal Resource Employment_.
- Organizational Structure, that enacts necesary degrees of _Division of Labor_
and _Coordination_.
- Organizational Culture, that helps to overcome the complexity bias. ([KISS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle))

<sub><a name="empowerment">1</a>: In the sphere of organizational theory,
"empowerment" often refers loosely to processes for giving members greater
discretion and resources: distributing control in order to better serve
the organization (adapted from
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowerment#In_management)).</sub>

<sub><a name="leverage">2</a>: Increasing leverage is the act of scrutinizing every decision or choice
as to potentialize it's desired outcome. You can be leveraged by code, community,
media, capital, labor and other ways. We need to better leverage our community
resources (tools, knowledge, people).</sub>

# Detailed design
[design]: #detailed-design

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individual's interpretations and views onto the ecosystem, they lack important
features such as:

- Structure
- Consolidation
- Ability to act as _Reference_
- Structure[^3]
- Consolidation[^4]
- Ability to act as _Reference_[^5]

[^3]: Discourse only has emergent features.
[^4]: in conversational style, a _conclusion_ lexically is nothing more than
another agent speaking: we cannot mark or systematically establish conclusions
[^5]: in conversational style, there is no mean to (efficiently) estabish legitimacy
of a conversation - they

A portal page might at first sight seem like an alternative mean to establish
a community coordination hub, especially for the above features. But, _optimum
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