I think a lot of these 'eliminate the boss' people ought to read The Tyranny of Structurelessness (http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm http://www.jofree

I think a lot of these 'eliminate the boss' people ought to read The Tyranny of Structurelessness (http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm). It's an article whose basic premise is that if you eliminate explicit hierarchies, social groups will tend to instead develop implicit ones, which are more difficult to challenge because they ostensibly don't exist.