How to pronounce“fiefdoms”in English

break down all the fiefdoms and get people to do stuff.

we effectively have created little uh fiefdoms that allow for these things to be perpetuated um

And unfortunately the company was run as different fiefdoms and silos and never really came together, so something like digital music-- the merger

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

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

So there's a whole bunch of rewards for people who build fiefdoms.

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,

And as the firm grew and grew and grew and grew, and these fiefdoms grew all across the world, in China, and Germany and elsewhere, there was also an extreme

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

That regarded their own, their own businesses, their own personal fiefdoms to necessarily play together well.