Visibility and Distribution by Level
 Each node has a level, a degree of separation from the root, an inherent holon property. Each position has a natural 2° visibility zone in a large hierarchy. Our inability to see much of the organization unaided is compounded by a generally false image of its shape
What does the CEO see? Down to org Level 3, positions that themselves see to Level 5
How do many largely pyramidal functions add up to a diamond? Because they are different sizes, the bottoms of small functions fill out the organization’s middle levels
Leadership networks in hierarchies are typically formed from the top down, giving smaller functions much greater representation in senior management groups than the large functions
     
In our pilot analysis, we expected a slope in the plot of positions by level, which would indicate the presumptive pyramid shape of hierarchical organization
Instead we found a more “normal” looking shape centered around the middle levels, a diamond shape when oriented vertically