[ktRolster]

  >By the way, what is the largest organization you can think that follows that swaps 'designated communicators' roles with no management?

Good question. I've worked at a fortune 500 company where people routinely ignored official communication channels in order to communicate with the people they needed. It becomes a lot harder to find the person you need at a large company and building relationships across departments becomes important.

It's rare in any organization that the people who have power are the same ones who get things done.