So, to cut to the logical chase, what you have is a many-to-many mapping with a hierarchical (family tree) structure.
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The Commons is a hierarchical club, however, and the prospects to make the most of this opportunity are not evenly distributed.
In the days before the app developer community, ecosystems were disciplined, educated and controlled by companies like Microsoft that took a hierarchical view of their network.
He believes that the shift from animism to centralized religion, and from an egalitarian to a hierarchical society, was the cause and not the effect of economic change.
And there is a hierarchical bureaucracy imposing that on teachers.
To emulate this kind of behaviour - albeit in a more simplistic fashion - Dr Rao and his team are developing a hierarchical brain-computer interface for controlling the robot.
And unlike an open social network, where everyone is equal, NationalField runs on a hierarchical social graph: Higher-level staff get a broader view of the state and local work below them.
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The firm will remain as a hierarchical bureaucracy, with the managers acting as controllers of individuals, work being coordinated by plans, rules and reports, the key value being efficiency and communications top-down.
InfoGlide's Similarity Search Engine converts data into a hierarchical format so that all transactions of an individual can be called up, as well as those of people with similar but not identical traits.
Level Five Leaders: Jim refers to a hierarchical matrix of leadership that describes 5 different types of leaders, and suggests that only with rare exception can anything other than a Level 5 leader take a company from good to great.
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This argument is often articulated with the preface that since Islam and sharia are not guided by a hierarchical jurisprudence like the Catholic Church or even like our own federal court system with a Supreme Court, any effort at outlawing it will suffer from over breadth and capture perfectly non-threatening "interpretations" of sharia.
With that I believe the role of leaders is changing to a less hierarchical style in a way that their job is mostly about orchestrating a management team rather than retaining leadership to him as an individual.
India remains a deeply hierarchical society where criticism is often taken as a personal affront.
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Yes, from a business hierarchical standpoint at least, Android and Chrome are now perfectly aligned.
That will mean encouraging a less hierarchical, more inventive, corporate culture.
Likewise, the bill proposes a more hierarchical structure for prosecutors.
Evangelical Protestant churches, which have a less hierarchical structure and appeal more directly to poor people, have been making great inroads not only in Argentina but in many other countries in the region.
Cambodge Soir, a daily, recently reported that he had financed the publication of a book about Sdach Korn, a commoner who, in the 16th century, routed the country's monarchy and created a less hierarchical society.
The KIO is a rather secretive and hierarchical organisation, with a sometimes inflexible chain of command that makes it slow to respond to changing circumstances.
When Gerstner left IBM, it was still a big lumbering hierarchical bureaucracy.
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Google has just bet on a less-hierarchical future for the credit industry.
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But it's really more a movement than hierarchical organization.
But when push comes to shove, they are likely to be set aside and the firm will revert to the dominant paradigm of management: managers controlling individuals within a framework of hierarchical bureaucracy.
He was pointing to a chart illustrating the hierarchical relationship between the foreman and the worker.
Besides, it turns out the human brain may not work on a top-down hierarchical model after all.
Re-contracting relationship ground rules is necessary, because in the aftermath of a promotion social and hierarchical relationship dynamics will inevitably shift.
If your organization has all these symptoms, your firm needs help quickly: there is a high likelihood that it has a terminal case of hierarchical bureaucracy.
These two correlations do not by themselves prove that chronic stress damages the memory, but Dr Evans and Dr Schamberg then applied a statistical technique called hierarchical regression to the results.
All of which suggests that hierarchical Bayesianism does a reasonably good job of capturing the complexity of the market.
Instead of the usual hierarchical view of a computer's applications and data, Sugar organises everything around what has been used recently.
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