Mr Brabeck thinks central Europe and especially Russia will produce better growth rates in the next few years.

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But Mr Brabeck is being notably ambitious: no firm of comparable complexity is making its management structure so flat.

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Others say Mr Brabeck is only doing what other bosses at many other big multinationals have done, and that he faces greater complexity than most.

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Analysts are still sceptical about Mr Brabeck's reforms.

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