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“Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to older rivals like Oracle and SAP.”

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“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…

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Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years.

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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…

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Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.

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“George Blankenship, a top executive of Apple’s retail initiative when it began, explained the very real link between storytelling and driving demand.”

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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…

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“The trick with selling breakthrough products is to explain them clearly.”

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Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls 'players'; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the…

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As the finish line for 2017 begins to come into focus, I'm beginning to wonder what an Uber turnaround would look like.

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“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…

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“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…

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Chinese companies, in their well-capitalized, rapidly growing, and surprisingly lightly regulated markets, have become global innovation leaders.

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