I think there is hope. It's about Dunbar's number. Wikipedia say this about it:

...it measures the "cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships".

This number is dictated by the "volume of the neocortex region of their brain" and it indicates the number of "relantionships" that a person can manage without problems. The number is 150 BTW. This is a very simplistic summary and you should read the Wikipedia article.

Now, some people are applying this when creating and managing companies in order to not have the problems that the big corp. have. See http://www.scottweisbrod.com/index.php/?p=92 for a nice summary.

I learned about it after reading Malcom Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". It's a good book BTW.