AFTER STEVE: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul Author: Tripp Mickle Publisher: William Morrow Price: $29.99 Pages: 495 Between 2001 and 2010, Apple launched the iPod, the iPhone, the MacBook Air and the iPad; each redefined its product category. Of these, the iPhone was the most important. Its obvious superiority forced […]
In 1939, shortly before the German invasion of Poland, a British emissary, Lord Lothian, visited the White House with an unusual request. The United Kingdom was unable to protect the world from the Nazis, Lothian told President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Anglo-Saxon civilization” would thus need a new guardian. The scepter was falling from British hands, […]
I thought to myself when R Gopalakrishnan’s book A Biography of Innovations, landed on my table. The author took the words out of my mouth, as in his introduction to his book, he himself says exactly that. Innovation is among the most frequently used terms wrapped in the adipose of management jargon, he says. Everybody […]
