Single cooperative Vs association of cooperatives

The situation is of US rural area:-

Consider the brief history of the Rural Electric Industry: Cooperatives began; Cooperative associations began; Trouble began! Trouble? Yes, and the sequence has quite a biblical ring. The ideal "beginning" has become tarnished. But why should something as purely motivated as working together for the common good be plagued with so many problems? The difficulty lies not with the motive but with a failure to recognize the complexity of the process. Ideally, a cooperative can accomplish much more than a single unit. And an association of cooperatives can accomplish more than a single cooperative. But each type of cooperative is unique and requires a different set of management skills . . . and that's where the trouble begins.

So ask yourself whether you are having these managerial skill or not..................................