Under the proposals, European institutions already operating in Greece should be given "certain decision-making powers" over fiscal policy, a German official told the Reuters news agency.

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This week marks the beginning of a new operating structure intended to speed day-to-day decision-making at GM.

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Furthermore, it also provides supporting evidence that distributed decision making and pushing that capability lower in the organizational hierarchy correlates to improved operating margins .

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