For years, the team had been organized hierarchically, with employees reporting to a single supervisor.

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People will unconsciously try to dominate someone that they perceive to be socially, financially, or hierarchically lower than themselves.

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They're perfect for "many-to-many communications, " Byrne says, and can be structured hierarchically.

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With the hierarchically ordered individuals studied by Sir Michael and his successors, both medical records and experiments on animals suggest stress hormones are involved.

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The companies' middle managers are hierarchically minded and display little initiative.

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