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These structures are formed on the basis that there are enough people under the leader to give him support.

Just as one would imagine a real pyramid, if there are not enough stone blocks to hold up the higher ones, gravity would irrevocably bring down the monumental structure.

So one can imagine that if the leader does not have the support of his subordinates, the entire structure will collapse.

Hierarchies were satirized in The Peter Principle ( 1969 ), a book that introduced hierarchiology and the saying that " in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.