Hierarchy Is the Disease, Not the Cure

"When I think of the millions of dollars spent by people at the top of the management hierarchy on efforts to motivate people who are continually put down by that hierarchy, I can only shake my head in wonder. What on earth are they thinking? We think you can get a heck of a lot further simply by minimizing mizing the distinction between management and any other employee in the company."

"MANAGERS TEND TO see promoting equality or "empowering employees" as a product of their noninterference. interference. Even I find myself counseling managers to "just stay out of the way" of their employees. But the truth is, you can't be passive. You must attack hierarchy. You have to destroy it."

"Nucor employee, in alphabetical order, on the cover of our annual report. In a lot of companies, that would be seen (justifiably) as a hollow gesture. In ours, it's an expression of what we truly believe, that each and every one of those people is equally important. tant. And let me tell you, if we mistakenly leave off a name, we hear about it from that employee, even though the print is getting so small some of us have to search for our names with a magnifying glass."