Quotes About Hierarchy

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A film set is all about hierarchy, but I always like to think about the circus. In the circus, there's this real sense of tribalism, and they're all on the road together. I don't think the ring leader is more important than the clown. They all work together, and I think that I felt that on 'The East.'

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.

The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

When you talk to a Latin American president, they make you feel so tiny right from the beginning, right from the moment when they shake your hands.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Subjecting a ruler to the rule of law was the first way a coalition of subordinates successfully slapped down its apex alpha dominator in a modern, complex society. It was the first step humans took to reassert their unique egalitarian ethos after centuries of submitting to apelike hierarchy in kingdoms and empires. The second cornerstone of democracy—the vote—came only later. Kleptocratic networks seek to suborn both.

Who seems a harmless fool to those above him is a malevolence to those beneath.

France is a very hierarchical society," he says. "The whole question of service is linked to old ideas of power and class.

Regarding clarity, most teams in the working world are starving for it. Layers of hierarchy create conflicting goals.

Privileges of age, size, and ass-kissing. If you survive this conversation, you'll find that it's just the same in most of the big gangs.

Charity is for the ruling class

SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

Always obey your superiors, if you have any.

AN OBSERVATION*** A pair of train guards. A pair of grave diggers. When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the 'other' is a lot more than one?

May we talk of a 'higher' and a 'lower' at all in the realm of what is essential? Is the essence of man higher than the essence of the animal? All this is questionable even as a question.