Human beings are programmed to trust
Great article here on social network theory: Human Nature .
Essentially Clippinger says the reciprocal altruism is programmed into us as a species...the implication being that as long as you enable effective social interaction, accountability and transparency,
The impact being that you can let go of command and control structures and replace them with distributed decision-making...
Big implications here for digital identity management enterprise management systems and accountability networks.