The Principle of Committee Entropy

The Principle of Committee Entropy is a concept in community governance that describes the natural tendency for any volunteer committee, council, or working group to gradually decline into disorder, inactivity, and irrelevance unless it is sustained by a continuous and deliberate input of energy, purpose, and structure. Much like the second law of thermodynamics, which states that closed systems inevitably move towards a state of maximum entropy or disorder, a committee left to its own devices will see its initial focus dilute, its energy dissipate, and its connection to the organisation's core mission weaken over time.

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