As traditional business models characterized by hierarchical order slowly evolve to become more inclusive, meritocratic structures in the future, women will undoubtedly be an important asset.

FORBES: The Immeasurable Value of Retaining Women in the Workplace

Hierarchical systems find their roots in modernist models of creating systems of certainty and security through highly delineated boundaries of function, structure, order and logic.

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