Best Quote by Patrick M. Byrne

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to…

— John Naisbitt

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

— Mary Douglas

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

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

— W. Edwards Deming

You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like…

— Bill Mollison

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…

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Jack Welch

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work)…

— Maynard Webb

The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy.

— Anita Borg

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

— Edward Abbey

One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

— Mary Douglas