Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia's boss from 2006 until last September, was keenly aware of the difficulty.
"Nokia is an extraordinary company, " says Pekka YlA-Antilla, director of the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
Recently, moreover, a young Finnish maestro, Esa-Pekka Salonen made a remark hitherto almost as unthinkable as Mr Abbado's.
Ari-Pekka Laitsaari, an independent advisor specializing in biotech and life sciences investments agrees.
This season, she's performing three new concertos written especially for her by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colin Matthews and Steve Mackey.
Nokia announced yesterday that, following the announced replacement of its CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo on Friday with Elop, Vanjoki was also resigning.
Olli-Pekka (or OP, as Walt just told us he likes to be called) has taken the stage... read on for more!
So does their former bass player, Pekka Pohjola, although these days he's found a home in the country's growing jazz scene.
From his sunny conference room five floors above a blue inlet of the Gulf of Finland, Nokia's chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, can't help crowing.
Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will be replaced by Microsoft exec Stephen Elop on Sept. 21, and mobile business unit head Anssi Vanjoki is also quitting.
Police identified the gunman as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a senior at the high school in the southern Finnish town of Tuusula, about 30 miles north of Helsinki.
As Mr Ollila steps down on June 1st, however, he hands his successor, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the difficult task of leading Nokia into new markets as the distinction between mobile phones and other consumer-electronics devices becomes increasingly blurred.
Indeed, Nokia's recent record of being slow to market with smartphones that can compete with the iPhone and other phones in part led to the recent appointment of former Microsoft Corp. executive Stephen Elop as Nokia's new chief executive, succeeding former CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
The head of Unep's Balkan DU assessment team, Pekka Haavisto, told the BBC that a year-and-a-half after the conflict they were surprised to find parts of DU weapons lying about in villages and graveyards where they could easily be picked up by children and adults.
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