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I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

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

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

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

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

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

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

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.