Read "The Starfish & The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations"  (you can also watch a presentation @ Google by the author, the current president of ICANN Rod Beckstrom)
If you want to understand why Satoshi did the right thing in "inventing Bitcoins, helping develop them a little bit, and then disappearing never to be seen again"


And frankly this is the way it has to be, if he had stayed the project would have failed.