Allison's philosophy of decentralization, he says, is an application of Rand's objectivist principles championing individualism--but with accountability.
The pair credit their success to an odd kind of decentralization: two chief executives and two headquarters.
Hands-off decentralization can be frustrating when a subsidiary rightly values sustainability and holistic wellness more than quarterly returns.
That decentralization is one of the reasons we enjoy such diversity and freedom.
Such radical decentralization is the goal of Ravi Amble , chief executive of TeleVital , a San Jose, Calif.
By shifting from a centrally planned economy to a market-based one, China has fostered growth through decentralization and experimentation.
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China adopted gradualism and decentralization to expand and manage its fledgling market-based economy.
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"We have a very large company, and I do run that company with a great deal of decentralization, " he said.
Second, it increased decentralization of decision making, as better information flow enabled owners to delegate more decisions to middle managers.
In short order American technology blew out its underpinnings and ushered in an age of decentralization and a broadly libertarian polity.
Whereas the thrust of modern Christian history has been toward decentralization, Sunni Islam has undergone a rapid period of theological consolidation.
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This is one of many reasons why decentralization is a good idea.
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Analysts, on the other hand, would likely (but not always) resist decentralization.
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The decentralization of our voting system, in this respect, is a strength.
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And as Cook explained to me, this massive decentralization of innovation helps keep Google 60% ahead of Yahoo in terms of online advertising effectiveness.
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To put it another way, you need radical decentralization and a radical shift to power to parents and children in how schools are run.
The U.S. and U.N. envoys should proactively back a root-and-branch Congolese reform process to address critical issues that undergird the conflict, from decentralization to army reform.
The Diane of today still praises decentralization and her new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System is still filled with Hayekian wisdom.
Naved Hamid, senior strategist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), says decentralization and greater local autonomy will be an important factor in the successful cities of the future.
The decentralization rate to our offices in Africa has increased.
Just as on the battlefield, the military needs to learn how to cope with the disorder and uncertainty of enterprise software delivery through decentralization, spontaneity, informality, loose rein, self-discipline and initiative.
The Seleka rebel coalition assaulted the towns of Alindao and Kouango in a direction toward the capital from Bambari, where they already seized control, said Josue Binoua, minister of decentralization and territorial administration.
One would involve an impartially facilitated national dialogue to address internal Congolese issues such as army and justice reform, decentralization, electoral frameworks, immigration, minority protections, land dispute adjudication, mining codes and other divisive issues.
Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.
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The losing side in this politically portentous contest appears to be Stanislav Shatalin and other reformers who are intent on pursuing a far more systematic -- and promising -- approach to genuine decentralization and transformation.
"So it's not hard to understand why there is a very strong concern in the east that they should have strong representation and that there should be a real decentralization of government services to the east, " he said.
It can help achieve greater decentralization.
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Perhaps even more significant as an impetus behind this emerging "Bush Doctrine" is the fact that some in the business sector are unhappy at the uncertainties being created as communist regimes experience fragmentation of political control and decentralization of their economies.
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The Center has long believed that the de facto decentralization process underway in the Soviet Union offers the best hope for genuine systemic reform and greatest insurance that the proceeds of energy sales to the West will not be diverted to purposes harmful to Western security interests.
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