Century is a loose confederation of fiefdoms, each with its own financial system and pay structure.
Committees, lawyers, bureaucrats defending their turfs, managers running their own silos as fiefdoms, giant egos, etc.
In that case, the Bells that stick to their old fiefdoms may be left behind.
By removing the fiefdoms that managers protected at the expense of the larger mission.
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"If you have two different heads, you have two different fiefdoms, " said BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis.
But Ghosn spotted something else: cultural barriers and stubborn fiefdoms that kept employees from communicating with one another.
During that era, entire industries and fiefdoms grew to accommodate the increasingly complex machinery and politics of national defense.
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One difference here is GM's plan to break down the fiefdoms that have operated among its divisions around the world.
The silos tend to become fiefdoms and the transaction costs of getting anything done across the fiefdoms tend to rise.
Before reinventing themselves online, Berman was a head honcho at Paramount and Fox while Braun lorded over fiefdoms at Disney and Yahoo.
The fragmentation of Afghanistan into separate fiefdoms has taken another step forward.
Clearly, Arnold and DSK have been more concerned about what their fiefdoms can do for them than what they can do for their fiefdoms.
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In the 1970s it caused endless fights between Whitehall ministries anxious to preserve their fiefdoms and a Scottish Office keen to expand its power.
Indeed, his life's work suggests that a flexible holding company--one encompassing sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating fiefdoms--is the best business model for a fragmented but global market.
This time the threat seems real and imminent: Two satellite networks are poised to carve up radio's fiefdoms just as cable and satellite TV did to the broadcast networks.
If they were leaders who wanted to control growth, create fiefdoms, and made decisions that were in their own best interest vs those of the company, regardless of their performance, he fired them.
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Turning to May's local government elections - where the SNP wants to win control of Glasgow City Council from Labour - Mr Salmond said voters had the chance to call time on the party's "local fiefdoms".
What is more, America's endorsement of the Vance-Owen plan would depart from long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the changing of borders by the use of force -- the practical effect of its parcelling out ethnic fiefdoms.
"The feeling that things had got to such an extent that unless this was delivered, proposed, endorsed by the people, then the result would be that Labour would lose control over its heartlands and fiefdoms, " he said.
"We're either saying that the 43 forces must co-operate much more, that the fiefdoms must come down, the forces should share services both to save money and to enable better action to deal with serious crime and incidents that cross their borders, " Mr Herbert said.
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