The quickest way to illustrate the workflow process at your organization may be to simply scrawl it on a whiteboard, but that means you'll have to change it every time there's a promotion or new hire.

Reader responses were in support of making a clear distinction between the word "church" and the word "hierarchy." First read the original argument from Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese. The following letters ...

Despite our inclination to believe equality within a team or group is important, new research suggests that a built-in hierarchy leads to fewer group conflicts and higher productivity. Teams in which ...

It is not every day that one can search Google for a word and get precisely *one* hit. Today was such a day for me. I needed a word that means the opposite of the word “hierarchy”. Some sources say ...

The ability of team members to work together across a range of tasks, called collective intelligence (CI), varies significantly between teams. Research suggests that the level of collective attention ...

A new fMRI brain imaging study of dogs shows that their brains process spoken words in hierarchical ways that are surprisingly similar to how the human brain uses a two-tiered hierarchy to process ...