“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
One of the world's most successful and yet mysterious companies in the world, Samsung Electronics, has been operating without its leader for… — Adam Lashinsky Continue 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 Beginning 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
“Even if you have constrained resources, do not cut corners,” said Fadell, stating his number one rule from Apple. “People will feel… — Adam Lashinsky Apple 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 Apple Copy Share Image
Chinese companies, in their well-capitalized, rapidly growing, and surprisingly lightly regulated markets, have become global innovation leaders. — Adam Lashinsky Become 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
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 Business Copy Share Image
“Put these corporate attributes together—clear direction, individual accountability, a sense of urgency, constant feedback, clarity of mission—and you begin to have a… — Adam Lashinsky Clear direction Copy Share Image
AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The… — Adam Lashinsky Aim 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 Business Copy Share Image
AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way… — Adam Lashinsky Aim Copy Share Image
“The hallmarks of the Apple product message are, as with so much at Apple, simplicity and clarity. Throughout its history, Apple has… — Adam Lashinsky Apple 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 Better Copy Share Image
“PC makers put crapware on their computers—antivirus software, subscription offers, and so on—precisely because the revenue is lucrative. Apple forgoes such opportunities… — Adam Lashinsky Computers Copy Share Image
Amazon has a good record with customers, who are confident the retailer will give them the lowest price. Entering their home will… — Adam Lashinsky Amazon Copy Share Image
I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know… — Adam Lashinsky Aim Copy Share Image
“a designer typically would be told what to do and say by the folks in manufacturing. At Apple it works the other… — Adam Lashinsky Designer Copy Share Image
The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to… — Adam Lashinsky Business 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… — Adam Lashinsky Advertising Copy Share Image
As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings. — Adam Lashinsky Internet 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
Global affairs consultant Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group, has started a newsletter called 'Signal,' aimed at millennials. For years, Bremmer… — Adam Lashinsky Global 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
Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as… — Adam Lashinsky Brilliant 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 Steve jobs 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
“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
Salesforce employees are so immersed in the fervor over their offerings and their unique workplace that they are nearly incredulous to learn… — Adam Lashinsky Beyond 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 Big decisions 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 Apple 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 Apple Copy Share Image
“it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that.” Jobs was speaking at… — Adam Lashinsky Computers 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 Alphabet Copy Share Image
Apple does a very good job of not letting its competitors know what it is working on, and Apple does a very… — Adam Lashinsky Apple 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 Business Copy Share Image
When I was a senior in college, I attended an inspiring conference at West Point called the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs,… — Adam Lashinsky Building Copy Share Image
