“Allowing nodes to chose their relationships gets close to this. Getting to a true understanding of a network organization will require exploring these kinds of ideas.

In any case, a hierarchy is merely a construct to tell a story. As our stories go quicker, so should hierarchies.”

Exactly ... temporary, situation-based, negotiated, based on who knows what, what needs to get done, etc. with some semi-stable but movable anchor points.

There are points of interaction on the behalf of an organizations and its customers where perceived accountability needs to be situated (senior people nominally accountable), but that's kinda like an organizational lightning rod in interconnected and constantly turbulent conditions. I'm not sure that metaphor works completely, still thinking about it.