Keeping the structure of whatever they do nonhierarchical and building consensus are crucial.

The company is designed to be nonhierarchical, it's the perfect alternative to being in a cube."

"Being in Austin creates a nonhierarchical campaign," he said.

"The question is, How do we create an organization that is nonauthoritarian and nonhierarchical?"

It was a democratic and nonhierarchical management structure that helped determine the office configuration in the headquarters building, which has 75,000 square feet of space.

The hanging is in the recent nonhierarchical, mix-and-match style.

The trend is toward individualization, nonhierarchical cooperation and breathless innovation.

This is Orpheus, the orchestra with no conductor and the ultimate flat, nonhierarchical organization.

It is democratic, nonhierarchical, open, and evolving in a polity that is none of those things.

According to Leo, Cezanne approached composition in a nonhierarchical way.

Their nonhierarchical collections - the kunstkamer theory of relativity?

"Houstonians are especially nonhierarchical," she said, "without the social or economic restrictions you see, say, in Dallas.

In contrast with traditional ethics, it is nonhierarchical and gives priority to the natural world rather than to humankind exclusively.

"He has no title because it is a nonhierarchical culture," Ms. Steinem said yesterday.

"The capacity to be intellectually courageous, creative and challenging in a nonhierarchical classroom that prepares you for an open society."

In this nonhierarchical way, Sleater-Kinney challenged conventional pop song structure.

Also, Latin culture, unlike Indian, is very nonhierarchical.

Log-linear analysis models can be hierarchical or nonhierarchical.

Being nonhierarchical is something Rubin learned at Goldman, where senior partners trust junior ones to manage their money.

Alik's emigre world, by contrast, is a nonhierarchical mess.

The Internet, designed to be inherently nonhierarchical, suggested even more grand possibilities, even a revolution in politics and human consciousness.

"The New Museum is nonhierarchical," he said.

Attitudes as nonhierarchical clusters in neural networks.

"Complexity theory is an approach to research, study, and perspective that is holistic, interdependent and nonhierarchical."

With such a close-knit and nonhierarchical team, and commissions which mainly came from his Catholic connections, the practice ran for a substantial period.