Quotes About Hierarchy

The real jungle is in the office of the bureaucrats

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

Many people don't know that all Grammy awards are not created equal. An unspoken hierarchy exists in many circles, and some categories are more respected than others.

Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

I couldn't bring myself to call him by his first name, that wasn't my upbringing. So I suggested I call him 'Anandji.' He glared at me and said, 'Do I look like a schoolteacher to you?' The next day when I called him 'Dev Saab' he looked around as though he didn't know whom I was addressing.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

The bishops will govern the Church, the priests will do all the work and the deacons will have all the fun.

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

In countries like India or China, a Steve Jobs will never come around. The fundamentals aren't there - there's this feudal hierarchy.

I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way.

Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.