I love your description/image of the wirearchy, Jon. I first learned of it in one of Harold's webinars.

But wirearchy doesn't embrace the conceptual utility of the term holarchy, a system of nested "holons"—whole entities that operate simultaneously as independent and as parts of a greater whole (incorporated into and transcended by the senior holons up the chain).

I find the idea of holarchy particularly useful as a way of ranking/ordering ideas (religious, political, philosophical) as well as for explaining how the "necessary" amounts of hierarchy Harold refers to above can accommodate the self-organizing, collaborative, often-ad-hoc workflows of wirearchies within an organization (which the chaordic- systems folks describe so well).