It means what it says, exactly. Today I would write that if you cannot reach the decision makers from the bottom, your organization is TOO BIG.

Remember when the Walkaway campaign was booted from Facebook, and Straka was sobbing like an idiot asking "who could this happen?!"

There is the concept of "six degree of separation", but in national-sized organizations you cannot reach the decision makers by a hundred-degree of separation. I know many people tried to warn WALKAWAY, they were literarly told to move from the platform of their political opponent! I did what I always do, try to reach them with introducing the Fedi.

That's what you are looking at, and early realization of a now crystal clear concept.

I hassle, I try, I take chances. I learn by doing. I did nothing wrong with that, or with anything else you might hang on hoping you can take it out of context and use it against me.