Finally, having started with a clean sheet, Emirates has a flat management structure and the kind of flexible, highly productive workforce that carriers such as strike-torn BA and high-cost Lufthansa can only dream of.

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They often have a flat management structure.

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ADA2h has two helix-shaped structures called alpha helices that are packed against a flat, sheet-like structure.

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Electricity provides the heat that transforms the rolled-up structure into a flat one, with the current experimental version taking around five minutes to completely settle.

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Her home was barely even a shack, with walls constructed from a hybrid of any available flat material scraps that they could piece together to form a structure.

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Mr Persson readily admits that recruiting around 2, 000 new employees a year is a strain on his ability to maintain the flat management structure so critical to controlling costs.

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The district has an unusual flat and decentralized organizational structure for its size and a culture that values entrepreneurial risk taking.

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