Understanding Hierarchy

The basic meaning of the word has been somewhat obscured in this modern era. What is hierarchy? Or more importantly what determines a hierarchy? Is it established based on individual ability, experience, general know how, sheer luck or simply just academic excellence?

In recent times the latter has generally influenced the toppers of an organizational chart. Should it be so? Can an individual with reputable academic achievements alone make it as a successful leader? A bid to understand all this leaves us with more unanswered questions, more confusion.

All these futile attempts of deduction kicks up a simple yet powerful phrase, ‘A Leader’. Let us go down this route. What makes a Leader? What impetus enables us to follow a certain individual into glory or destruction?

It is a well known fact that not everyone is cut out to lead. A leader should be able to command respect, loyalty and belief from his followers. He should be someone, whom you can look up to, seek direction and guidance.

The dominators of every organizational chart should consist of such individuals. These individuals should exemplify the organization in its truest and most complete form, while not undermining the roles of their coworkers.

In conclusion, the truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.