Although these made perfect strategic sense, the business unit leaders perceived the shifts as a potential loss of autonomy, power, and control.

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Is the experiment worth placing this burden on small unit leaders?

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Interestingly enough, that is a role the best chief information officers play, as they have reason to collaborate with leaders of each business unit and division of a company often in ways that those leaders do not with each other.

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New leaders include Motorola unit head Dennis Woodside and former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chief Regina Dugan, who joined Google in March and will lead an advanced technology group at Motorola.

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At the time, the Southern District was between leaders, and the attorneys in its securities unit had their hands full with other cases, including Galleon.

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The leaders reacted by fomenting a riot in which the top-security unit was wrecked and nine prisoners died.

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The unit stems from an agreement last year between the government, the unions and business leaders after talks brokered by the International Labour Organisation.

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The school's announcement last week in a letter sent to faculty, staff, parents and alumni said the committee's leaders would include Lisa Friel, the former chief of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan district attorney's office and a school parent.

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