# Quote — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

> The typical organization is hierarchical, with workers answering to a manager, and that manager answering to a still-higher manager, and so on. The value of such hierarchies is obvious-it vastly simplifies communication among the employees. New employees need only one connection, to their boss, to get started. That's much simpler than trying to have everyone talk to everyone.

- Author: [Clay Shirky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky.md)
- Book: [Here Comes Everybody](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/here-comes-everybody.md)
- Page: 29
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky#Here_Comes_Everybody:_The_Power_of_Organizing_Without_Organizations_(2008)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/here-comes-everybody/the-typical-organization

## More from this book

> Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process: if enough people care enough about an article to read it, then enough people will care enough to improve it, and over time this will lead to a large enough body of good enough work to begin to take both availability and quality of articles for granted, and to integrate Wikipedia into daily use by millions.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/here-comes-everybody/because-wikipedia-is-a-process.md)

> Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. The aggregate relations among individuals and groups, among individuals within groups, and among groups forms a network of astonishing complexity.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/here-comes-everybody/society-is-not.md)

> We use the word "organization" to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing... We use one word for both because, at a certain scale, we haven't been able to get organization without organizations; the former seems to imply the latter.

p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/here-comes-everybody/we-use-the.md)