"In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than……" — Laurence J. Peter

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• Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,… — Annie Besant
• There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be… — Charles Olson
• Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex… — Camille Paglia
• We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social… — Unknown Author
• Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a… — Estelle Freedman
• People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not… — Lierre Keith
• We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only,… — Benito Mussolini
• If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be… — Herb Kelleher
• The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant — Justin Cronin
• Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high… — Laurence J. Peter
• A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it,… — Ely Culbertson
• Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps… — Jeremy Rifkin

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