Allowing Quote by Gloria Steinem

Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and…

— William P. Young

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

— Grady Booch

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

— Jack Welch

You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

— Jordan Peterson

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…

— Dee Hock

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

— Julia Hartz

We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.

— Harold Leavitt

You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.

— W. Edwards Deming

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

— Mary Douglas

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

— Max Weber

“Here’s what turns a successful hierarchy into one that impedes progress: when too many people begin, subconsciously, to equate their own value and that…

— Ed Catmull