But the primary skills of an elastic enterprise reside around relationships of persuasion rather than control.
If Son is to leave a legacy, it might be this: A way of managing via influence rather than control that is as logically connected as hyperlinks and as serendipitous as Web surfing.
M-5's first-stage engine, had their minds on corporate strategy rather than quality control.
China banks may be better at acquiring larger stakes in brand name lenders in Europe, rather than taking control outright.
Others suggest that rather than a control device, the material might be useful to get a handle on population numbers.
Rather than taking control of us, as the man-versus-machine plotline would have it, silicon-based life forms can actually help us better control them.
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Britain thought its job was peacekeeping rather than imposing control.
The right response to that, though, would be to curb pollution and try to alter the pattern of growth to make it less resource-intensive, rather than to control population directly.
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Use it as a positive tool to help you control your money, rather than allowing your money to control you.
It means that communications are conducted in horizontal adult-to-adult conversations, rather than command and control.
If Netscape remained the leading supplier of browsers, Windows would risk being turned into an almost irrelevant commodity, and Netscape rather than Microsoft would control the gateway that leads to the Internet.
They become enablers instead of controllers, coordinate their organizations through dynamic linking of teams and customers rather than command and control, make social and customer values their prime concern, and communicate so as to further stakeholder conversations.
The government playbook has also become pretty clear: by arresting traders like Martoma on a criminal complaint, rather than after an indictment, the prosecutor keeps control of the process, rather than giving up authority to the judge.
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Wolf Heiztechnik of Bavaria is developing a contract under which it sells temperature control rather than heating equipment.
And most of your concerns about cloud computing can probably be chalked up to irrational fears due to lack of control rather than legitimate dangers.
The point was (and is) that policing in the UK is based on a "service and consent" model rather than the "crime control" model familiar in the United States.
We have even refrained from making much-needed improvements to the stockpile's safety, security and control rather than risk having to undertake new designs that could only be validated by underground testing.
Rather than the illusion of control that cabinets of curiosities offered centuries ago by facilitating an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world, the dreamlike microcosm in "Ghosts in the Machine" anticipates a dematerialized digital culture.
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So the British decided to give their most dangerous prisoners more control, rather than less.
The fact that Iron Dome was only used against just over one third of the projectiles fired is a measure of its advanced fire control computers rather than its limitations.
Under the tuck rule, if a passer is in the act of bringing the ball down into his body rather than throwing it and loses control, it is ruled an incomplete pass.
So one of the issues for Belvidere has been hiring of temporary workers because that has been a lot cheaper for Chrysler, which is now under Fiat's control, rather than hire people in full time.
By arresting Martoma based on a criminal complaint rather than after a grand jury indictment, the government is still in control of the process, Sorkin said, rather than a judge.
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We need a genuine free market in health care, one in which patients control the funds rather than governments, employers and insurance companies.
This shrewd New Democrat played a big part in getting Canada's constitution brought under overtly Canadian (rather than, theoretically, British) control in 1982.
To do so limits our ability to make informed decisions and puts us at risk of letting others control our destinies rather than making our own.
V4, where the light reflected from a surface is compared with that reflected from surrounding surfaces, in order to control for relative rather than absolute brightness.
Yet, across the country, large numbers of communities have managed to control their health costs rather than ratchet them up.
Mr Riseley said because of this a one-year price control had been set rather than for the usual period of three years.
And Sir Brian Souter, chief executive of Stagecoach, has even said he would rather "take poison" than hand over control of bus services to the politicians.
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