How to Save Nokia: Rip Out Its Bureaucratic Guts

Nokia's business may not be circling the drain hole, but it is in the toilet despite positive spin around its recent finances. How can the company be saved? A former exec knows: by flushing its middle management.

Juhani Risku wrote a book--Uusi Nokia (New Nokia)--that has been a sensation in Finland, but is only now hitting the English-speaking world, and The
Register gave it a close read. Risku is a former architect and industrial designer, and he was employed at a senior level inside...