Now managers are realizing that better management practices allow workers to participate in workplace decision making.

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Reflecting on Sony and Zappos as bellwether data loss crises, it seems especially unsettling that, well before the spring of 2011, much better data breach management practices had already been powerfully codified by experts and effectively implemented by corporate victims.

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Greater energy efficiency comes from more highly developed technology and better energy management and conservation practices.

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All it requires is better application of existing management knowledge, practices and existing infrastructures, and scaling up smart and successful practices that are already working.

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He himself recently moved to Raleigh, partly to better understand U.S. culture and management practices.

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For instance, management rules and training practices are better, he says.

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