Then, as the hierarchies of the continent weakened, the handshake re-emerged as a standard greeting among equals—the way it remains today.
Later, when hierarchies went out of fashion, the executive washroom was abolished in the name of equality and chief executives peed shoulder to shoulder with office juniors.
The 'hunter-gatherer' example shows how social hierarchies can form - you only need to directly know a few people in a large group in order to become a leader figure.
Along with Google, Apple has focused the minds of auto executives on the challenge posed by new technologies that have the potential to disrupt traditional auto industry hierarchies.
But corporate hierarchies are sometimes a cheaper way of co-ordinating economic exchange.
Sir Michael Marmot, of University College London, and his intellectual successors have shown repeatedly that people at the bottom of social hierarchies experience much more stress in their daily lives than those at the top—and suffer the consequences in their health.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) Hunting has opened the earth to me and let me sense the rhythms and hierarchies of nature.
Carl Reiner Hunting has opened the earth to me and let me sense the rhythms and hierarchies of nature.