Hierarchies are becoming flatter, and knowledge workers respond to different incentives and political appeals.

We also advise them to commend and flatter the Minister of Justice in their tweets

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

Nonetheless, nominal rates do matter. When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance sheet problems slowly accumulate.

And, in an age of flatter hierarchies and empowered knowledge workers, soft power is likely to increase in importance.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth their inward part is very wickedness their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue.

Governments have traditionally been very hierarchical, but the information revolution is affecting the structure of organizations. Hierarchies are becoming flatter and embedded in fluid networks of contacts.

Just as Putin has created a managed democracy, Russians can now look forward to a managed Kremlin marriage one that will attempt to flatter and sweeten their kitschy authoritarian leader in his dotage.

If they prevail against you they will neither observe pacts nor good faith with you . They flatter you with their tongues , but their hearts are averse to you , for most of them are iniquitous .

Linda Robinson, Adjunct Senior Fellow for U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, argued that the organizational structure became flatter and cooperation with the intelligence community was stronger, allowing special operations to move at the speed of war .

The politicians I've met are generally very extroverted, friendly, very socially skillful people, and that's the nature of politics. You've got to make relationships, make deals, you've got to cajole, please, flatter, you've got to use your personal skills, and that's the way politics has always worked.