Opinion

It's time to let go of old-fashioned hierarchies. Give us real leadership

It is the collective functionality of the organism that must take precedence, not the ego-rung of the structure

12 December 2021 - 00:00

Hierarchies are so ’80s. They should be let go. Wherever we go we encounter, or should I say we’re confronted with, hierarchies. There are hierarchies of convenience (or necessity) which are earned, typically, and then there are hierarchies of authority, which are imposed. The world has changed so fundamentally since hierarchy was the only way “things get done around here”...

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