> many instinctively want to climb hierarchies I think some, myself and Apple included when I worked there for years, consider hierarchies as a restricted sort

> many instinctively want to climb hierarchies I think some, myself and Apple included when I worked there for years, consider hierarchies as a restricted sort of graph (essentially trees) that, to be a tree, necessarily collapse multiple dimensions of talent per individual into the single hierarchy, and thereby loses information. Hierarchies were avoided even whenever possible. This has worked out fantastically for me for decades. But would-be managers have vested interest in promoting the supposed intrinsic instinct thing. Individuals don't have to play along.