You have a boss, and at the same time people report to you. In fact, at the company where you work, every employee reports to a single other person. Actually, that’s the way it works in just about every company, notwithstanding a popular perception that the trend toward flatter organizations equates to a weakening of corporate America’s traditional hierarchical power structure. That popular perception is nonsense, according to Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
via Millennials Err on Company Power Structure: Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer.