It's useful to make the distinction between structural hierarchies and social ones (and useful to be really skeptical of the zeitgeisty posts that don't differe

It's useful to make the distinction between structural hierarchies and social ones (and useful to be really skeptical of the zeitgeisty posts that don't differentiate between the two). So flatten your company structure however you like, there will be a social hierarchy in place as well because these are Humans we are talking about. The people who have interesting things to say about this will talk about how this is the real power of a flat structure, that the social hierarchy is much more dynamic and re-arranges itself on demand and multiple context dependent hierarchies will exist all inter-relating. Your static and slow to adapt org-chart hierarchy just gets in the way. Of course there are a lot of cons as well as the pros, you will get cliques, introverts, regardless of ability, will be disadvantaged, these subconscious social hierarchy building behaviours incorporate all those ugly human prejudices we know are maladaptive, etc. But overall I find it a really interesting argument.