The Importance of Hierarchical Organization

People are much happier in hierarchical organizations, but happy isn't the right word. We function more effectively all things considered in hierarchical organizations and we actually desire to be in them. The structure that structures perception is integrally associated with the structure that enables you to extract value from the facts of the world. If you show monkeys pictures of high status, monkeys or low status monkeys, they spend more time looking at the high status monkeys. They're just like celebrities. It's like People magazine for monkeys.