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In this response to Kleiner's Core Group Theory, the author maintains that any creative or liberatory potential to be found in core group decision making is and probably will remain unrealized unless maximization of financial returns – as the dominant organizational value – can be successfully challenged. The author contends that maximization of financial returns is such a dominant value, that it is currently and dangerously unchallenged, and that it is likely to remain so because it serves core group interests.