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Originally Posted by MINKIN2 View Post
“… Nokia is not planning on replacing Giles, instead saying it sees the departure as “reducing a layer of sales management.”

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't large multi-national companies who rely on sales actually need someone to head their sales department?
No idea, maybe they outsourced that too.

Originally Posted by shallimus View Post
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17769772:


Awards and acclaim don't pay the bills. Elop's response to "mixed" sales results? Do more of what he's already been doing, and do it faster.

When in hole, do you stop digging... or do you bring in a freakin' JCB and go for gold?

Whatever, too late anyway.
He thinks that if he digs long enough he will come out on the other side. His burning platform analogy seems more like "out of the frying pan, into the fire" day by day.