“But hierarchy creates freedom! It organizes, sets a framework, distinguishes. On the other hand, a stuffy horizontalism obscures the view upwards and generates ever new intrusions in companies: feedback rounds, employee surveys, ideological coercion, target dictates, health terror. Titles disappear, everyone is on a first-name basis, everyone has a say in everything. This creates an integralism of mediocrity, organized irresponsibility.” “Man is a being of freedom, and we should ask ourselves whether we want to further expand the bureaucratic intervention logic. Just because something has a buzzword boom, it is not necessarily right.”
– Sprenger, Reinhard K.: Decency through distance, in: manager magazine (October 2015), p. 142.