Related:

• Sociology's Iron Law of Oligarchy In every organized activity, no matter the sphere, a small number will become the oligarchial leaders and the others will follow.
• If the people lead, the leaders will follow.
• One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output.
  Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output....
• The efficiency of a committee meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent on deliberations.
  -- Old and Kahn's Law...
• The hypothesis: Amid a wash of paper, a small number of documents become the critical pivots around which every project's management revolves.
  These are the manager's chief personal tools. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month...
• Dibble's First Law of Sociology: Some do, some don't.
• The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.
  -- Adam Walinsky...