The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries. — 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 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 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 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 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
“Apple doesn’t own the saw, and it doesn’t own the company that owns the saw. It also doesn’t staff the factory where… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
What to do with a leading business that's challenged by a new technology wave without hurting an existing profit stream? The single… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of… — Adam Lashinsky 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 Copy Share Image
Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
If SoftBank can complete the tender offer it contemplates to buy a large stake in Uber, the company's bizarre governance war will… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“In a company organized along functional rather than divisional lines, scouting must be a core competency of its leader. Steve Jobs long… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
With innovative companies and products like Tencent's WeChat messaging service and novel approaches to artificial intelligence and various business models, China rapidly… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision,” he told Playboy in 1985. “They insert lots of layers… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Speaking of Jobs, Moritz writes: “He was unwilling to let product planning become burdened with analysis, focus groups, decision trees, the shifts… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“The ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’ doesn’t exist at Apple,” he said, referring to Clay Christensen’s popular book about how big companies fail to anticipate… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars,… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Salesforce employees are so immersed in the fervor over their offerings and their unique workplace that they are nearly incredulous to learn… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
What makes Samsung so mysterious is that it's not altogether clear who leads the company or what its leaders do. The company… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
If you crave further confirmation that Silicon Valley is a magical place where magical thinking reigns, consider the tale of Roku, the… — 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 Copy Share Image
“The reason you have committees is that you have divided responsibilities,” Jobs said. “We don’t. At Apple you can figure out exactly who is… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“George Blankenship, a top executive of Apple’s retail initiative when it began, explained the very real link between storytelling and driving demand.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Apple is a military-like command-and-control organization where people lower down in the organization manage up. They are constantly preparing their boss who may be… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“The trick with selling breakthrough products is to explain them clearly.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls 'players'; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
As the finish line for 2017 begins to come into focus, I'm beginning to wonder what an Uber turnaround would look like. — 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 managers worried… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“I always considered part of my job was to keep the quality level of people in the organizations I work with very high. That’s… — 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
