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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? So what happened? It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management.

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How to Stop People Who Bog Things Down with Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Heads nod in the China pricing meeting when they say, “I know China pricing is a huge issue for us and it raises a fundamental problem: We have no consistent way to decide pricing between markets, or to bring our supply chain in, so we can confirm margins. We’ve got a big organizational problem here and we should solve it.”