Communication becomes more formal and impersonal as a hierarchy of titles and positions grows.
By 1808 a new hierarchy of titles had been created, which were to be hereditary provided that a family could support its title with a large annual income 30,000 livres, for example, in the case of a count of the empire.
Today's career trajectory isn't a vertical climb to the top of a department or assuming the next in line in a long hierarchy of titles.
The hierarchy of occupational titles made manifest differences in power and authority.
Audiences need a hierarchy of information; Slide Title, Point Title, Point Content.
This stuff matters because rank denotes a place in the hierarchy of power unless title is an empty shell, in which case we should be told.
It's easy to rely on a structural map of an organization that plots out the hierarchy of reporting and titles to determine who has the power in an organization.
There's no hierarchy of time either.
High-reliability organizations are those where lines of communication remain open to fully share critical information, unfettered by barriers of hierarchy, seniority, title, pay grade, gender, or ethnic background.
If anything, Holacracy is hierarchy on steroids, albeit not a hierarchy of people with the title of "bosses". …the vast majority of specific business decisions made in a Holacracy-powered company are made autocratically, by someone in a clear role with the clear authority to do so (and clear expectations that go along with that authority).
But Mr. Rubin, who has been described as on equal footing with Mr. Barnett in the hierarchy of the label, refused to take a title.
