I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off. — Adam Lashinsky Company Copy Share Image
“The ethos at Apple was always about its uniqueness, and attention to detail is part of that ethos.” — Adam Lashinsky Attention to detail Copy Share Image
Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secrets from each other. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“You either did or you didn't - there is no try. - Steve Jobs.” — Adam Lashinsky Jobs Copy Share Image
“The goal of the Apple stores was to appeal to non-Macintosh customers,” — Adam Lashinsky Goals Copy Share Image
“Many consumers don’t even notice UI, but the ease, elegance, and wit with which Apple users interact with their products is a… — Adam Lashinsky Beauty Copy Share Image
The iPod was once so important to Apple that the estimable journalist Steven Levy wrote an entire book about it. And then,… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Even if you have constrained resources, do not cut corners,” said Fadell, stating his number one rule from Apple. “People will feel… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Chinese companies, in their well-capitalized, rapidly growing, and surprisingly lightly regulated markets, have become global innovation leaders. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Salesforce acquires companies - it has snapped up 55 since 2006 - that are either more innovative or that have pioneered market… — Adam Lashinsky Acquires Copy Share Image
Porat is among a handful of top people who work for both Alphabet and Google. As such, there's a regular cadence to… — Adam Lashinsky Alphabet Copy Share Image
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a… — Adam Lashinsky Dream Copy Share Image
“Steve’s talked about the goal of Apple, and the goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice… — Adam Lashinsky Goals Copy Share Image
For years now, we've been hearing about how China is the great copycat nation, the manufacturer of designs drawn up in other… — Adam Lashinsky China Copy Share Image
“Under Steve Jobs, only one executive “owned” a P&L, and that was the chief financial officer. By creating a system whereby only… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Once things really picked up, a virtuous halo effect took hold: Heavy promotions of iPods brought people into retail stores, where customers… — Adam Lashinsky Technology Copy Share Image
“Apple storytelling initially is high concept, telling customers not what they want to buy but what kind of people they want to… — Adam Lashinsky Marketing Copy Share Image
“Apple’s brand czar, Hiroki Asai, is a quiet executive almost completely unknown to the general public. He studied printed design at California… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Ive’s dreamy insistence on a stainless-steel bezel for iPhones and industrial-grade glass for iPads, for instance, paid off in a way that… — Adam Lashinsky Management Copy Share Image
“Buddhism—a faith Jobs studied intensely—teaches that if you are going to prepare a cup of tea, the making of the cup of… — Adam Lashinsky Buddhism Copy Share Image
Global affairs consultant Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group, has started a newsletter called 'Signal,' aimed at millennials. For years, Bremmer… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Blankenship described Tesla’s version, an obvious homage to Apple marketing, regarding how to sell its $150,000-plus Roadster. “Zero to sixty in 3.7… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Logistics is in fact a key aspect of military planning, and Cook is responsible for Apple’s operational excellence. For example, when Apple… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
“The way you end any discussion at Apple is: ‘It’s the right thing for the product.’ If you bring the data that… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Inventory, Cook would later explain, “is fundamentally evil. You want to manage it like you’re in the dairy business: If it gets… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
Broadcom is the descendent of a nearly 60-year-old unit of the original Hewlett-Packard. Semiconductor companies are like enterprise software companies: they don't… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and… — Adam Lashinsky Customer Copy Share Image
“I think as long as humans don’t solve this human nature trait of sort of settling into a world-view after a while,… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Obsessing over details and bringing a Buddhist level of focus to a narrow assortment of offerings sets Apple apart from its competitors.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“He overtly thinks about the simplicity of Apple’s design and attention to detail. “We are primarily about building a really pure user… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to… — Adam Lashinsky Acquisitions Copy Share Image
A 'free and open' Internet has been an article of faith in and around Mountain View, Menlo Park, and its environs for… — Adam Lashinsky Faith Copy Share Image
As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Asked why he lived so humbly, he once said: “I like to be reminded of where I came from, and putting myself… — Adam Lashinsky Money Copy Share Image
Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it -… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
“Managers at all levels of Apple said they rarely were pressed for any kind of financial analysis or to defend decisions based… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
