Its denizens tend to work in an informal, nonhierarchical environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sexual Harassment Suit Comes to Silicon Alley] Reference

Younger employees are quite comfortable sharing roles, working in teams and nonhierarchical environments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Move Over, CEO: The Time Is Right for the Chief Financial Officer to Be a Co-Leader] Reference

Until now the Internet has been a uniquely bottom-up, nonhierarchical, seamless form of global communication.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet Splits Up] Reference

The nonhierarchical Internet is an earthquake toward postive change that established education shuns but cannot avoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » New technology may be changing the human brain] Reference

But even within the band, their political structures were remarkably nonhierarchical, and their headmen wielded only limited power.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

Fallon prefers to promote internally and tries to promote a nonhierarchical office culture, says Ms. Wilsher, the managing director.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Clients Beat a Path to Fallon in London] Reference

I don't know if it's the Internet per se, but the enterprises of my generation are certainly nontraditional, nonhierarchical and nonpatriarchal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Employee No. 5 At Yahoo] Reference

The internet, designed to be inherently nonhierarchical, suggested even more grand possibilities, even a revolution in politics and human consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog: Edward Rothstein on From Counterculture to Cyberculture] Reference

The weekly Monday meeting of managers — or "leads," as Google puts it in its nonhierarchical way — will be one of the last before the upcoming launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web] Reference

It is a compelling answer in the post-modern era of nonhierarchical thinking, chaos theory, Wikipedia, the Internet and collective intelligence -- or collective folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Richmond, a Civil War expert seeks to emancipate history's narrative] Reference

In other studies at the same firm, Owens and his researchers discovered that nonhierarchical structures led not to greater teamwork but to more hero worship of star employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet: 'Don't Mail Me, I'll Mail You'] Reference

We have had to learn a lot about techniques of leadership in a nonhierarchical and highly decentralized organization, let me tell you, and it may be that we can share some of that knowledge with you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ivory Tower and the Boardroom: The University as an Organizational Laboratory] Reference

Well-meaning military innovators had believed that mixed-rank exercises would enhance career development an dencourage nonhierarchical communication, but the actual result was rivalry and recrimination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serious Power Trips « Isegoria] Reference

But Obama sounded like a cross between a social activist and a flannel-shirted software C.E.O. — as a nonhierarchical, collaborative leader who can inspire autonomous individuals to cooperate for the sake of common concerns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Two Thirds Say Hillary Should Stay In Even If She Loses One Big State] Reference

The absorption and internalization by halakhic authorities in recent generations of modern egalitarian and nonhierarchical gender conceptions resulted in a different reading and renewed interpretation of the bounds of modesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modesty and Sexuality in Halakhic Literature.] Reference

If relatively poor people confronted with extreme scarcity in arid regions can create a stable, collective, and nonhierarchical common pool system, then certainly we can find ways to do so as well with all of the tools at our disposal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randall Amster: Water, Water Everywhere? Sustaining Scarce Resources in the Desert] Reference

Planning reflected the familial, nonhierarchical corporate ethos, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interior Design Industry News] Reference

The cultures that have emerged have tended to be fiercely nonhierarchical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

"He is exceptional in his ability to create a nonhierarchical intellectual atmosphere.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

As people striving toward a nonhierarchical society, yes, we can -- and should -- be rigorously critical of Barack Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

As people striving toward a nonhierarchical society, yes, we can†"and shouldâ€" be rigorously critical of Barack Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Me Before I Vote Again] Reference

We believe in collective process and a nonhierarchical distribution of power within our own group and in our vision of a revolutionary society.    From Wordnik.com.  [UBUNTU!] Reference

The weekly Monday meeting of managers - or "leads," as Google puts it in its nonhierarchical way - will be one of the last before the upcoming launch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Does all of the above through a democratic and nonhierarchical organization that itself provides a model for the society that it's struggling to create.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference

Librarian Masha Serdyukova explains that being officiated as a nonprofit with 501 (c) 3 status would complicate Papercut's nonhierarchical governance style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weekly Dig - Humor, News + Nightlife] Reference

Also undermining heraldry is the nonhierarchical nature of his compositions, the all-overness of his spreads recalling abstract, Color Field painting as much as any historic source.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Sun - All Articles] Reference

It’s about nonhierarchical netroots, it’s about “the volunteers.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER] Reference

Neolithic Goddess culture was woman-centered, peaceful, prosperous, and nonhierarchical. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dale Allen: God the Mother or Paleolithic Porn?] Reference

There is a relaxed, nonhierarchical atmosphere as the seven young managers of the WebDVD group, all in the standard winter uniform of khakis and flannel shirts, gather in a windowless conference room near Gates’s office.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Sketches] Reference

The internet, designed to be inherently nonhierarchical, suggested even more grand possibilities, even a revolution in politics and human consciousness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicago Blog] Reference