A memo, reprinted in the Washington Post, from Jack Ward Thomas, chief of the Forest Service, to his staff:

Subject: Horizontal Behavior.... In two recent situations, we have responded to requests for information from Congress by asking a single staff group to prepare information. These incidents have been identified as the personifications of "linear" as opposed to "horizontal" behavior in the organization. A previous set of operative language would have contrasted this as "functional" as opposed to "corporate" behavior. Please be sensitive to these perceptions—which do have merit—in assigning or responding to such requests.

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