How Srila Prabhupada wanted his ISKCON society managed.

Srila Prabhupada - "The Krsna Consciousness Movement (ISKCON) is for training men to be independently thoughtful, there must be always individual striving, work and responsibility, competitive spirit.

NOT that one shall dominate and distribute benefits to the others and they do nothing but beg from you and you provide. 

No, this centralisation control of all our ISKCON Temples will spoil everything! 

Each temple MUST remain independent and self-sufficient.

I have heard you want to make big plan for centralization of management, I do not at all approve of such a plan. 

Do not centralize anything!

Each temple must remain independent and self-sufficient. That was my plan from the very beginning, why you are thinking otherwise? 

Once before you wanted to centralize with the GBC and if I did not interfere the whole thing would have been killed.

Do not think in this way of big corporation and centralization—these are all nonsense proposals. 

The only thing I wanted was that book printing and distribution (BBT) should be centralized, thats all, otherwise management and everything else should be done locally by local men.

Accounts must be kept, things must be in order and lawfully done, but that should be each temple's concern, not yours. 

The Krsna Consciousness Movement (ISKCON) is for training men to be independently thoughtful and competent in all types of departments of knowledge and action, not for making bureaucracy.

Once there is bureaucracy the whole thing will be spoiled. 

There must be always individual striving, work and responsibility, competitive spirit, not that one shall dominate and distribute benefits to the others and they do nothing but beg from you and you provide, No. 

Never mind  that there may be botheration to register each centre, take tax certificate each, become separate corporations in each state.

That will train men how to do these things, and they shall develop reliability and responsibility, that is the point. (Letter to Karandhara - Bombay 22 Dec, 1972)