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American strength is in “scaling” to large organizations, so we are bound to use that midah, creating biggest yeshivos, biggest kosher food businesses, etc leaving it to French to create tastiest, etc.

Still, the problem with organizations is that responsibility goes to some person whom you do not know, and whose values may not be same as yours. Chofetz chaim who lived in the age of emerging political organizations opined that even in the organization consisting of Rabonim, the power will belong to the secretary … I also once (sic!) saw a Rav being on a panel discussing certain social issues pointed to another Rav on the same panel, who ran a way bigger organization, and mentioned that that Rav offered to join their efforts but he politely declined reasoning that he feels better being fully responsible for what his little mossad was doing … I presume that he mentioned this publicly for the benefit of the listeners.