You're describing three non-hierarchical divisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it] Reference

Decisions are made in non-hierarchical consensus fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookworms and applesauce] Reference

ZAKARIA: ... because they said it's a non-hierarchical language.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009] Reference

Creating a non-hierarchical physical environment but avoid power grabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Culture and Corporate Power Plays] Reference

It's really interesting but I think that human needs are non-hierarchical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indulgence] Reference

That is, there need to be two unique norms, in a non-hierarchical arrangement.    From Wordnik.com.  [evolver Diary Entry] Reference

We are historically non-hierarchical and we invented legal/public policy argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [I've been trying to tell Mark Kirk this for a very long time. Maybe he'll listen to the poll.] Reference

As everyone familiar with Wall Street knows, salaries are very often non-hierarchical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Hanft: Close the Loopholes in the Salary Cap -- and Don't Punish Banks that Paulson Strong-Armed into TARP] Reference

Such behaviors would be incompatible with a non-hierarchical, classless, or bottom-up system.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: The Editorial Class] Reference

I have worked more or less independently or on a non-hierarchical team for most of my professional life.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Deal: To be an effective boss, value employees and don't be a hypocrite] Reference

Examples of societies where men and women regard themselves and their work in a non-hierarchical way do exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guilty pleasures. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

Or are you simply expressing your progressive commitment to a more non-hierarchical, non-competitive typography?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Through the long, bloody summer and fall of 1864, the South had hung on only because of the belief that the North might tire of the conflict."] Reference

They want them to think like, you know -- I mean, non-hierarchical cultures are America, Israel, Austria, Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009] Reference

Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digg: Collaborative Technology News Website « open thinking] Reference

One of the lovely things about Chancellor-elect Eisen/Arnie is his refreshing informality and non-hierarchical way of being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Danny Nevins Appointed Dean of JTS Rabbinical School | Jewschool] Reference

Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem: We prefer to describe these variables as interrelated and non-hierarchical elements in our final design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob Slevin: Preview Exhale Pavilion at Art Basel Miami Beach: Interview with Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem] Reference

As the tools do a better job of memorializing the communication, this non-hierarchical communication is on display for everyone to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Davenport Versus McAfee and Twitter] Reference

The postmodern ethos reflected my experience of psychedelics: all-embracing, non-hierarchical, unifying, liberating and non-judgemental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drawing Lines: Magical Tribalism | Disinformation] Reference

Lastly, another concept to ponder is Rhizome and the application of multiple, non-hierarchical flow of content genes, cultures, food, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Need Community Managers] Reference

He says the relationships with his drivers, translators, and security was non-hierarchical in every way: "I trusted them as they trusted me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Brothers in Arms] Reference

It's virtually impossible to track supply and demand among non-hierarchical churches, such as Baptists, Pentecostals and many evangelical groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Clergy Shortage To Clergy Surplus] Reference

Because of the Universal Postal Union, a non-hierarchical, co-operative, non-coercive federation of postal systems in the world, who all agree to deliver each other's mail, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking of Anarchy and Publishing with Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press] Reference

One way that the IDF exhibits a flat, non-hierarchical culture — more like a startup than a large corporation — is that it works to drill responsibility down to lower levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soldiers of Fortune] Reference

It needs to be self-organized, non-hierarchical and collaborative.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Save the World] Reference

This is contrary to the way our non-hierarchical group process works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference

So it is all very dynamic and organic, basically, and non-hierarchical?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Policy In Focus] Reference

Distributed, non-hierarchical, loose cannon cyber arbakai of the Amriki tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consul-At-Arms] Reference

We would like you to join us in being a part of this non-hierarchical network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ravine of Light] Reference

The guiding principles of 'Direct Action' and non-hierarchical consensus based decision making will apply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indymedia Ireland] Reference

It has been run for a decade in a fluid, egalitarian, non-hierarchical manner as a partnership of all its activists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

And we can, of course, argue for smashing such a social arrangement and replacing it with non-hierarchical social forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarkismo.net] Reference

We also assume a lot of responsibility for the day-to-day management of the projects, but it is absolutely non-hierarchical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Policy In Focus] Reference

The Coalition of Women for Peace is a non-hierarchical organization, managed by its monthly forum which is open to all women.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference