Losing the Signal The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff
Brand: Flatiron Books
Product Description
Shortlisted for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2015 A Best Business Book of the Year Forbes Magazine A Times of London Book of the Week Best Narrative Business Book of 2015 by StrategyBusiness In 2009 BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway. With unprecedented access to key players senior executives directors and competitors Losing the Signal unveils the remarkable rise of a company that started above a bagel store in Ontario. At the heart of the story is an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer Mike Lazaridis and an abrasive Harvard Business school grad Jim Balsillie. Together they engineered a pioneering pocket device that became the tool of choice for presidents and CEOs. The partnership enjoyed only a brief moment on top of the world however. At the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the worlds fastest growing company internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test Apple and Googles entry in to mobile phones. Expertly told by acclaimed journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff this is an entertaining whirlwind narrative that goes behind the scenes to reveal one of the most compelling business stories of the new century. show more
Condition : New
Author : Jacquie McNish Sean Silcoff
Weight : 347
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Language : English
EAN : 9781250096067
ISBN10 : 1250096065
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20190401
Place of Publication : New York
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 140 X 208 X 18mm