The first is the use of flexible networks—powered by guanxi or personal connections—to reduce costs and increase flexibility.

第一个是使用灵活的关系网络---由关系或者个人联系带动---从而降低成本和增加灵活性。

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Even though you can build flexible architectures with proprietary technology, it creates vendor lock-in, reduces flexibility in future sourcing, and likely results in higher total cost of ownership.

虽然您可以用专利技术构建灵活的架构，但是它生成了厂商的禁闭，减少了未来的来源获取的灵活性，并且可能导致更高的所有权总成本。

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Flexibility. Polyphasic sleep has been a lot more flexible than I first imagined.

多相睡眠远比我一开始认为的要灵活。

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How you will be flexible with your flexibility should circumstances require you to work in the office on one of your scheduled remote work days.

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But most companies are touting flexibility as random telecommuting or flexible arrival and departure times.

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Moreover, successful monetary union may sometimes require governments that have lost their monetary and exchange-rate flexibility to resort to a more flexible fiscal policy.

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