Cleansing the doors of misperception.

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the world and then fell into decline, leading to the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft. This book explores and analyzes that journey and distills observations and lessons for anyone keen to understand what drove Nokia’s amazing success and sudden downfall. It is tempting to lay the blame for Nokia’s demise at the doors of Apple, Google, and Samsung, but this would be to ignore one very important fact: Nokia had begun to collapse from within well before any of these companies entered the mobile communications market, and this makes Nokia’s story all the more interesting. Observing from the position of privileged outsiders (with access to Nokia’s senior managers over the last twenty years and a more recent, concerted research agenda), this book describes and analyzes the various stages in Nokia’s journey. This is an inside story: one of leaders making strategic and organizational decisions, of their behavior and interactions, and of how they succeeded and failed to inspire and engage their employees. Perhaps most intriguingly, it is a story that opens the proverbial “black box” of why and how things actually happen at the top of organizations. Why did things fall apart? To what extent were avoidable mistakes made? Did the world around Nokia change too fast for it to adapt? Did Nokia’s success contain the seeds of its failure?

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The two Tabors

10.1093/oso/9780198808282.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Briggs ◽

Hans Halvorson ◽

Andrew Steane

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Important Influence ◽

Cavendish Laboratory ◽

James Clerk Maxwell ◽

Personal Influence ◽

Doctoral Work ◽

The Doors

The book contains three autobiographical chapters, one from each of the authors. In this one Andrew Briggs (A.B.) presents some of his experiences. Professor David Tabor was an important scientific and personal influence on A.B. in his doctoral work at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. A visit to Mount Tabor in Israel gave a memorable opportunity for reflection on the connection between spiritual matters and physical, geographical matters. Another important influence was the humble Christian and great nineteenth-century physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell had a verse from Psalm 111 inscribed over the doors of the Cavendish laboratory. When the laboratory was moved into new premises, A.B. asked whether the inscription could be included. This was agreed by the relevant committee. It reads: ‘The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein’: a lovely motto for scientists.

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From invisibility to inclusion: Opening the doors for older men at the University of the Third Age in Malta

Gerontology & Geriatrics Education ◽

10.1080/02701960.2021.1913413 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Marvin Formosa

Keyword(s):

Older Men ◽

Third Age ◽

The Third ◽

The University ◽

The Doors

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Varieties of Public Attitudes toward Immigration: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Japan

Political Research Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1065912921993552 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106591292199355

Author(s):

Rieko Kage ◽

Frances M. Rosenbluth ◽

Seiki Tanaka

Keyword(s):

Public Attitudes ◽

Economic Effects ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Survey Experiments ◽

Attitudes Toward Immigration ◽

The Doors

What factors shape attitudes toward immigration? Previous studies have typically debated whether citizens oppose immigration more for economic or cultural reasons. We broaden this debate by exploring how different segments of the citizenry feel about immigration. Our original surveys conducted in Japan reveal two separate axes along which many citizens view immigration: (1) its cultural and economic effects, and (2) its positive and negative effects. Even in Japan, whose relatively closed policy toward immigration is conventionally believed to reflect widespread public intolerance of outsiders, over 60 percent of our respondents favor widening the doors to immigrants for economic or cultural reasons or both.

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