Treating the org chart as a ladder on which higher is always better is the central lie of hierarchy.

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• Hierarchy is not intrinsically authoritarian: it is a property of self-organising systems that emerges for the benefit of the parts. CMCharity Majors5 Jan 2024
• An excellent organisation is significantly more likely to succeed than a weaker one, so organisational strength belongs in the decision about where to give. EHElie Hassenfeld17 Dec 2014
• Designers on a large team have to collaborate, share and build on one another's work rather than going off into their own silos, because that is how the org chart gets shipped. PDPolly D'Arcy28 Apr 2026
• An organization that demands trust ends up with less of it than one that shows its work instead. BSBalaji Srinivasan12 Jul 2026
• Organizations are a better hope than individuals for improving judgment, because they think more slowly and have procedures that can be controlled, while individual judgment is really hard to fix. DKDaniel Kahneman12 Oct 2019

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