Power structures exist in any group of size. Companies can choose how formal to make them, but they can’t avoid them.

Imagine instead of having to convince the Director, VP, or CTO to support your good idea, that instead you had to convince 100 out of 700 people to support it, while at the same time, those 100 people are hearing good-sounding ideas from 99 people who aren’t you.

I’d way rather work in the former than the latter.