Chain of command Quote by William P. Young

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 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

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

— Max Weber

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

— W. Edwards Deming

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

There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by…

— James Cromwell

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

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

— Jair Bolsonaro

“Hierarchy is a toxic inheritance from previous eras that we keep reproducing as a matter of our social reproduction, but that does not mean…

— Bob Torres

“Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.”

— Lee Child

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A…

— George Orwell