There is flat management, where there are smart people in the room at all levels who contribute and are heard irrespective of their pay, age, or years of experience.
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.
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 picked up some Hewlett-Packard last year after the flat-footed management took one too many writeoffs.
Sales had recently gone flat, and management called me in to see if we could determine innovative new approaches and products in their markets.
But Mr Brabeck is being notably ambitious: no firm of comparable complexity is making its management structure so flat.
Ventas will directly pay a management company a flat fee to run the homes and then takes all of the profit (paying taxes, of course).
Simply put, the building management business is becoming flat and doing so fast.
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The proxy painted a dire situation, showing a management team that seems flat-footed and unable to compete in an industry losing market share to mobile devices.
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For many of us, home means a flat in an apartment complex, where the building management often provides an extra layer of security.
Big Flat sits in the middle of the Bureau of Land Management's 64, 000-acre King Range National Conservation Area, a patch of northern California so rugged that the engineers who built Highway 1, which hugs the coast from San Diego to Oregon, took the road 30 miles inland here to avoid it.
Bristol-Myers Squibb will not walk away from its deal with ImClone Systems , even after ImClone flat out refused Bristol's demands that it reconfigure its senior management and give the drug giant a larger share of sales of Erbitux, a cancer drug the two had agreed to co-promote.
The main options management has right now are to reinvest its funds into a flat defense sector or return the money to shareholders through stock repurchases and the like.
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For 2013, management expects the same-store sales to be in the region of flat to low single-digit, excluding the impact of rise in menu price.
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Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.
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Going by the management commentary of Infosys in the Indian press, IT budgets are likely to remain flat and may even drop.
Or bring along your BlackBerry Enterprise Server administrator so he can try to prove our contention, that deploying a mobile device management solution such as Sybase Afaria can match or top BES for security, is flat-out wrong .
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