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It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.