“You’re going to do twenty briefings, and they’ll all sound exactly the same to you. But that’s what you want, because the… — Adam Lashinsky First time Copy Share Image
“How fast can we get people through the register? Well, let’s get rid of the register. Why do we even need a… — Adam Lashinsky Credit card 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
Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secrets from each other. — Adam Lashinsky Apple Copy Share Image
“An unwillingness to stick a finger in the wind of customer requirements was one of Steve Jobs’s favorite tropes over the years.… — Adam Lashinsky Computers 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
Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money. — Adam Lashinsky Defend 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
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 Country 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
Should Ford succeed in equipping all its cars with information that gets communicated back to its servers, it will become a 'big… — Adam Lashinsky Data Copy Share Image
“Human minds settle into fixed ways of looking at the world, and that’s always been true,” he said in a 1995 interview… — Adam Lashinsky Death Copy Share Image
Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely… — Adam Lashinsky Computers 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
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
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
If you crave further confirmation that Silicon Valley is a magical place where magical thinking reigns, consider the tale of Roku, the… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
“From Apple’s iconic “Think Different” campaign in 1997 featuring images of Gandhi and Einstein and Bob Dylan (and no Apple products) to… — 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 Buddhism Copy Share Image
“A few years later Jobs rhapsodized about Land in an interview with Playboy. “Land was a troublemaker,” Jobs said. “He dropped out… — Adam Lashinsky Art and science Copy Share Image
Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service,… — Adam Lashinsky Inside and outside Copy Share Image
“We will figure something out that seems relatively interesting and … spend some time in Northern Japan, talking to the master about… — Adam Lashinsky Architecture 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 Right thing 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 Retail Store 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 Current Copy Share Image
