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	Fiefdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud or fee, often consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a form of allegiance, originally often to give him the means to fulfill his military duties when called upon.
		However anything of value could be held in fief, such as an office, a right of exploitation (e.g., hunting, fishing) or a revenue rather than the land it comes from.
		Fiefdom usually required the vassal to obey conditions of customary and specified homage and fealty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiefdom (589 words)

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		One of the easiest fiefdoms to spot, and the most difficult to alter, is the top-tier fiefdom, where the person at the top of the organization cuts himself off from the marketplace to such an extent that he becomes immune to the realities of the business.
		Protected fiefdoms occur when a top executive or a board sanctions, harbors, or even creates a fiefdom and provides long-term protection of the fiefdom by sheltering it from financial or strategic scrutiny and, in general, ensuring a hands-off approach to it.
		To be clear, a protected fiefdom is different from a top-tier fiefdom; in the latter case, one individual at the top of a particular organization is running the show and keeping his management out of things and is truly the feudal lord of the fiefdom.
	www.bpmmag.net /magazine/article.html?articleID=14314&pg=2 (511 words)

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		The fiefdom might access its data for somebody outside the fiefdom, and even operate on it on their behalf, but direct access is only given to the fiefdom.
		The fiefdom exclusively controls its part of the transaction, but it does it as a service to the client, which is a transaction coordinator.
		The interior of a fiefdom should be built on the concept of loose coupling between the fiefdom and its clients.
	msdn.microsoft.com /msdnmag/issues/03/07/DesignPatterns (3653 words)

	Fiefdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The county prosecutor blasted the ``law enforcement fiefdom'' of Mayor Jerry Jennings, Police Chief James Tuffey, Albany County Sheriff James Campbell in...
		For four years, this patch of about 15,000 souls has been my fiefdom, my chance to make a difference and put something back.
		Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud or fee, consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a vassal knight's service (usually fealty, military service, and security).
	www.wikiverse.org /fiefdom (463 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Fiefdom Syndrome by Doubleday Publishing
		It is a natural human tendency, dating back to the origins of our species, but if it isn't managed properly, the damage caused by these "fiefdoms" can spell the death knell of what should have been a strong and vital organization.
		People who create fiefdoms can become dangerously insular, losing perspective on what is happening in the world outside their own control.
		They are determined to do things in their own way, often duplicating or complicating what should be streamlined throughout the company, leading to runaway costs, increased bureaucracy, and a loss of agility and speed.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook25176.htm (357 words)

	Boxed Out
		Just because the streets are public, and the project includes $15 million in city, state and federal tax dollars to rebuild Chestnut Street from 6th to 20th, doesn't give you the right to have a say in what's going on here.
		For its part, the Teal Fiefdom was able to float a $21 million tax-exempt bond issue to pay for design and construction of the project.
		And no matter what Levy says, the Teal Fiefdom is ultimately part of a democracy, not some playtoy of the landed gentry.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/113095/article022.shtml (1003 words)

	OGADEN ONLINE
		Although one would expect this fiefdom to go the extra mile in welcoming Ogaden livestock into its territory, since they are the main beneficiary of this one sided trade, Ogaden citizenry were subjected to all sorts of gimmicks in robbing them of their meager earnings from the sale of their livestock.
		Worse, this fiefdom started early in 1994 to detain and illegally hand over Ogaden civilians, some of whom were visiting their blood relatives at the time, to the Abyssinian colonizers,.
		Instead of waging a war against this fiefdom, which ONLF was and is capable of, it decided that the best way to bring the fiefdom to its knees was to close the border to any commercial traffic to and from northwestern Somalia.
	www.ogaden.com /Tobaganing.htm (673 words)

	FTPOnline - Tech•Ed 2002 - Microsoft Adopts Medieval Web Services Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The fiefdom is the sole source of the current state of two classes of data: reference data, such as product catalogs, and per-user data, such as purchase orders and invoices.
		A fiefdom doesn't lower the drawbridge for an emissary until it submits proper credentials and the fiefdom verifies the emissary's request.
		Fiefdoms and emissaries originated in the Middle Ages, so another year or two in the gestation process won't affect the big picture.
	www.fawcette.com /reports/tech-ed/041102/flessner/sidebar1.asp (729 words)

	Fiefdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Under the system of feudalism a fiefdom fief feud or fee consisted of heritable lands or revenue-producing granted by a liege lord in return for a vassal knight 's service (usually fealty military service and It usually required the vassal to obey of customary and specified homage and fealty.
		Fief lands eventually gave way to the village concept towards the end of the medieval age.
		Most books on advertising and creativity are pretty bad, and this one is no exception.I wish for once we could have a creative who talks about process more than accomplishment.
	www.freeglossary.com /Fief (382 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "Afghan warlord Dostum returns to personal fiefdom "
		General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who said his forces took the key Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Friday, is an ethnic Uzbek warlord with a reputation for ruthlessness who ran the city as his personal fiefdom for years.
		Dostum, 47, is unlikely ever to emerge as a serious candidate to run Afghanistan, analysts say, but he commands a force who could influence who does.
		But on Friday he said he was back in the capital of his former fiefdom.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/8656.html (654 words)

	Microsoft Notebook: Ex-executive's book tells of 'fiefdom' issues
		Called "The Fiefdom Syndrome," it examines and offers solutions for overcoming what Herbold describes as the human tendency to create isolated domains within larger organizations -- defending them and resisting change to the detriment of everyone involved.
		Herbold offers the anecdotes primarily for instruction, to demonstrate some of the fiefdoms that have existed within the company and how he and other Microsoft executives sought to overcome them.
		It required the heads of international subsidiaries to relinquish some of their preferred methods of reporting, but it also gave them better access to information and let the company close its books in a matter of days, rather than weeks, after the end of each quarter.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /business/187415_msftnotebook23.html (1232 words)

	The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies - And How to Overcome Them (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Having 15 years of IT experience, I agree with many aspects of what the author calls a "Fiefdom" (eg, individuals or groups that tend to isolate themselves from the larger organization under the cover of seemingly-superior management styles leading to the decline and end of an otherwise-good company).
		What sometimes the author sees as a fiefdom is actually not so if you take into consideration that not all countries go about doing business like an Western corporation.
		Applying the fiefdom framework will help anyone be a better manager or follower.
	www.econbooks.com /The_Fiefdom_Syndrome_The_Turf_Battles_That_Undermine_Careers_and_Companies__And_How_to_Overcome_Them_0385510675.html (630 words)

	The Hellbound Web \| Encyclopædia \| "The Canons of Pain"
		He lead a crusade to the Levant to recover the "arrow pierced shroud of St. Rubrub" from the Muslims.
		She helped execute an inquisition of the fiefdom, and was impregnated by Robataille.
		She solved the Box for the second time and was taken to Hell with Robataille.
	www.cenobite.com /encyc/cbh01a.htm (696 words)

	Jordan is Palestinian - the PA is a Fiefdom
		Jordan is Palestinian - the PA is a Fiefdom
		What the Bush initiative overlooks and the Saudi plan envisages, therefore, is not a Palestinian state but a PLO statelet, a kind of a personal fiefdom for patriarch Arafat and his aging cronies.
		As sexy as the Saudi plan is, it is calculated to cash in on the crisis-weariness of a world that has had enough.
	www.christianactionforisrael.org /isreport/july02/jordan.html (1547 words)

	Excess Net :: The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies - And How to Overcome Them (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Herbold identifies why fiefdoms are a problem, where they typically arise in companies--finance, HR, marketing, IT, virtually in most teams and departments--and offers solutions for preventing fiefdoms from cropping up and how to dissolve existing turf control.
		In an approachable manner, he demonstrates how discipline, creativity, and enforcement are keys to preventing the spread of fiefdoms: "The basic human tendency to want to control one's destiny or turf runs counter to discipline in an organization.
		Like headaches, fiefdoms can become a persistent problem and if left untreated, can send organizations into an endless loop of deteriorating health and repeated investigations into the cause.
	www.excessnet.com /p-The_Fiefdom_Syndrome_The_Turf_Battles_That_Undermine_Careers_and_Companies___And_How_to_Overcome_Them-0385510675.html (782 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies - ...
		In THE FIEFDOM SYNDROME, Herbold tackles a problem that infects every organization from megacorporations such as Microsoft to nonprofits and government agencies: the tendency of people at all levels to assert their independence, importance, and their control over projects by creating and fiercely guarding individual or group fiefdoms.
		It's the guys in the corner office who hoard vital data; the department heads who reshape success stories so that their team comes out on top; division leaders who focus on their own products and interests and ignore corporate goals; and top executives and boards of directors who refuse to share financial and strategic plans.
		Herbold explains how fiefdoms develop at every level of an organization and reveals the seven key disciplines for eliminating them wherever they appear -- including specific strategies managers can use to turn a department, a division, or an entire company into a smoothly running, disciplined enterprise.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=54210274&srchTerms=0385510675&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN (576 words)

	Breaking walls - Greater Baton Rouge Business Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's tough to precisely define fiefdoms, but you know them when you see them.
		"It's not that people who exhibit fiefdom tendencies are mischievous or unethical," says Robert J. Herbold, author of The Fiefdom Syndrome.
		Herbold, COO at Microsoft before launching a consultancy, suggests discipline ought to be a key ingredient in any plan to dissolve fiefdoms.
	www.businessreport.com /newsDetail.cfm?aid=5465 (607 words)

	The fiefdom syndrome: former Microsoft and P & G exec Robert J. Herbold shares secrets on how to bust up ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The fiefdom syndrome: former Microsoft and P and G exec Robert J. Herbold shares secrets on how to bust up bureaucracies
		Individual subsidiaries had become impenetrable fiefdoms that had hijacked control of their financials, hired their own finance people and redefined the chart of accounts to reflect the "uniqueness" of their markets.
		It was a classic example of fiefdoms where the individual sales divisions worked very independently, selling the products of their specific division (detergent, paper, foods, household cleaning products, etc.) and developing their own practices and procedures for dealing with customers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m4070/is_205/ai_n13678037 (416 words)

	The Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles That Undermine Careers and Companies—And How to Overcome Them : HBS ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		So, it is no wonder that his message concentrates on the need to balance creativity and discipline.
		Herbold’s solution to the fiefdom phenomenon lies in establishing an organization characterized by a system of efficient and effective processes.
		Described as “the seven disciplines of the well-run corporation,” Herbold stresses creating lean global processes, standard templates, and data; avoiding overconfidence, fragmentation, and bottlenecks; formulating processes for inspection; and continually learning new skills.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /book-review.jhtml?id=4371&t=career_effectiveness&nl=y (221 words)

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		Recently, on an airplane returning home to Seattle from a consulting job with a large corporation, I realized that, once again, I was seeing the same kind of problem in the company I was working with that I had seen many, many times before.
		After retiring from the position of COO at Microsoft, where one of my chief tasks was to break through corporate fiefdoms and help to streamline the company, I decided to write down what I'd discovered about fiefdoms.
		Herbold, whose job as COO at Microsoft during much of the 1990s was to fight complexity in the face of 30 percent growth per year, revamped the company's structures, systems, and processes and helped propel its rise to the top.
	www.bpmmag.net /magazine/article.html?articleID=14314 (444 words)

	Inside the Cloistered Fiefdom of an Unrelenting Gentleman Scientist
		The most significant chapters of Conant's book describe "that twilight period between the wars, when the last of the gentlemen scientists engaged in pure research" destined to alter the course of World War II.
		From his "cloistered fiefdom" at Tuxedo Park, Loomis helped prepare the way for the two greatest technical achievements of what some have called "the physicists' war": radar and the atomic bomb.
		At the Aberdeen Proving Ground, which opened for business in 1918, Alfred Lee Loomis invented instruments that would be used for the next twenty-five years in measurements of external ballistics.
	www.siam.org /siamnews/12-02/scientist.htm (1906 words)

	Managing Offline Clients with the Smart Client Offline Application Block
		As Figure 1 shows, there are two platforms: the service consumer platform (emissary), which includes the smart client, and the service provider platform (fiefdom), which includes Web services.
		The fiefdom follows the principle "Never trust an outsider." Typically, fiefdoms are an organization's enterprise applications.
		The fiefdom and the emissary have no direct references to each other—a very big advantage in the evolution of software components.
	www.devx.com /dotnet/Article/21420/0/page/2 (1032 words)

	Surpur constituency fiefdom of the Rajas - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Surpur constituency fiefdom of the Rajas - Deccan Herald
		Apprehending poll violence, the police have considered Surpur as hyper-sensitive and are taking extra measures to see that the polls are fair and free of violence.
		The fiefdom of the Surpur Rajas still continues in this constituency, even after the region attained Independence from the despotic rule of the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1948 itself.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/mar142004/d1.asp (675 words)

	Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles that Undermine Careers and Companies—and How to Overcome Them HR Magazine - ...
		Fiefdom Syndrome: The Turf Battles that Undermine Careers and Companies—and How to Overcome Them
		The Fiefdom Syndrome begins when people seek to make themselves vital to their organizations and try to protect their turf and others' perceptions of them.
		People who create fiefdoms can become dangerously insular, hoarding resources, and often duplicate or complicate what should be streamlined.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3495/is_7_50/ai_n14814529 (123 words)

	SAS \| Overcoming "The Fiefdom Syndrome" -A Business Finance Influencer's Webcast
		They will discuss the turf battles and territorial “fiefdoms” that undermine so many companies – and how to conquer this insidious problem.
		The problem begins when – out of fear – individuals, groups or divisions seek to make themselves vital to the organization by trying to protect their turf or reshape their environment to gain as much control as possible over what goes on.
		Regardless of your industry or field, since the Fiefdom Syndrome is born out of human nature, you have undoubtedly encountered this behavior somewhere in your organization.
	www.sas.com /events/cm/47509/index.html (815 words)

	Caveat Lector » Fiefdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Puerto Rican Census Project is a fief belonging to a few history and sociology professors.
		Yes, the fiefdom model gets some good things done, no question about it; my flippancy as regards naming the system doesn’t mean I lack respect for it.
		Let me be clear on one point: Some Ph.Ds who work in fiefdom are not academics—that is, they’re not hired as tenure-track teachers and researchers with responsibilities to an academic department.
	cavlec.yarinareth.net /archives/2004/03/29/fiefdom (735 words)

	Srdja Trifkovic's NEWS & VIEWS UNFIT TO PRINT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Lord Ashdown’s Balkan fiefdom it is commonplace.
		This matter deserves urgent attention by Western political leaders and legislators, in view of the fact that their taxpayers have been underwriting Bosnia, Inc. for the past decade.
		Indulging Messrs Ashdown, Hays and others by allowing them to continue running Bosnia like a feudal fiefdom is not only unnecessary and detrimental to peace and stability in the Balkans, it costs money.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Trifkovic/NewsST101003.html (2374 words)

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