Hierarchies Get in the Way of Progress

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Illustration of a hierarchy


Several things have occurred this year which have me thinking about leadership/governing structures and the need for a change in the current infrastructures of our organizations.


Hierarchies often create situations where the lower valued (see above chart) people are alienated from their work because of a real lack of say or decision making.


  • This then leads to:
  • lack of initiative
  • lack of innovation
  • lack of interest
  • lack of input from necessary input channels



I am fully convinced that these new structures will come from outside of western culture.  Western culture has a white-supremacist patriarchy firmly established and seems to be bolstered by both the liberal and conservative factions of the us political system.  For this reason, I believe we must look outside of these systems and the traditions they are founded upon.  


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