Quotes About Hierarchy At Work

#1. The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence x 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.

Laurence J. Peter

#2. In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

John Naisbitt

#3. That is what capitalism is - a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives' labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#4. They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.

Isaac Asimov

#5. With love and kindness, with persistence and politeness, you can shake the world.

Debasish Mridha

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

Steven Rodney McQueen

#7. Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

Josh Burggraf

#8. Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

Narendra Modi

#9. What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

Bell Hooks

#10. The animism paradigm has resurged in magic probably because of
a strong anarchist (or anti-authority) strain in modern magical thought. Animism offers a way to work with the spirit paradigm without issues of hierarchy intruding.

Patrick Dunn

#11. It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture, it's a town of entertainment.

James Turrell

#12. Sin had so shut up mercy from us, that had not Christ made an atonement by his death, we should never have obtained it to all eternity.

John Flavel

#13. Respect. Have it not only for others, but also for yourself.

Xondra Day

#14. Then there's the third way proffered by the Lord of Discipline, which is beyond both hierarchy and territory. That is to do the work and give it to Him. Do it as an offering to God. Give the act to me. Purged of hope and ego,

Steven Pressfield

#15. From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Lee Hall

#16. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.

Herman Wouk

#17. Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

Tana French

#18. There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

Anais Nin

#19. By the time you work your way down the hierarchy to a brunette, you got yourself a woman who knows who she is, likes it enough that she ain't gonna change, and is probably gonna try to change you, if push comes to shove. Pushy, that's what brunettes are. Even the dainty, fragile-looking ones.

Karen Marie Moning

#20. If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.

Anna Quindlen

#21. Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.

Philip Yancey

#22. I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that!

Alanis Morissette

#23. Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live,

Brad Feld

#24. Choose well, thy choice is brief, and yet endless.

Kimball Lee

#25. Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

Barney Frank

#26. Dr. Fortunato," Kristine shot back at Laurie, her resentment undisguised. "You don't know how we do things in Wright. Dr. Parrish doesn't care about hospital hierarchy. He's very accessible and he'd never let his ego get in the way of patient care. Maybe you do things differently where you work-

Lisa Scottoline

#27. But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

#28. Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

Ayn Rand

#29. I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

Melissa Etheridge

#30. I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.

Samantha Fox

#31. When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

Warren Farrell