How to pronounce “fief” in English

Now the adverting budgets is a good metaphor for fiefdoms; if you were a general manager in the business and you had an advertising budget that probably wasn't the only budget

But as kingdoms started to exert their control over the medieval patchwork of fiefs and baronies,

that's transparent and that doesn't lead to these kind of private fiefdoms that we see with Nike and the University of Oregon,

Hello everyone, and welcome to "Talks at Google." I'm Doug Fiefia, and I'm a manager on our small business sales engage team within GCS here at Google.

Jobs wanted to eliminate that, he wanted to get rid of fiefdoms, he got rid of the whole notion of general manager, and he wanted to emphasize the notion of one company, one brand,

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control room. And the idea which we see today in governments where there's so many different silos, each department working within its little fiefdom, so little conversation

Like, what can we do to get everyone on board for the greater good, instead of these little fiefdoms that just vote themselves out?

had played a quote from Rush Limbaugh that was essentially the equivalent of that the President is trying to turn America into a middle-eastern fiefdom or something and, and