¶ … leader candidate leadership (past present) struggled due ineffective management. How / improved / management practices? Please specific practical problems leader faced. Nokia is certainly one of the best known companies in the world and its past success has made it possible for hundreds of millions of fans to direct their attention toward the company. The company's CEO up until recently (Microsoft purchased Nokia on September 2, 2013), Stephen Elop, is largely responsible for a series of successes that the Nokia saw from 2010 on. However, the fact that he considered that the firm had what it took to compete with companies like Samsung and Apple made it difficult for Nokia to keep its place on the smartphone market. Elop did not realize that the mobile phone industry started to experience rapid progress and that he needed to urge his subordinates...

Doing so meant that the company would continue to experience a serious decrease in profits as previous Nokia users started to focus on other products on account of the more effective devices that appeared on the market.
Elop's arrival at Nokia should have been accompanied by an act that involved risk, especially considering that Nokia's position on the market had gone down as a result of Android and Apple smartphones becoming more popular. This was not the time for Nokia to continue its previous strategies, but Elop failed to…