Author:Jacquie McNish,Sean Silcoff
Winner of the Canadian National Business Book Award 2016
Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015
In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the US smartphone market. Today that number is less than one per cent. What went so wrong?
Losing the Signal is the 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; instead, 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 a small Canadian city and went on to control half of the US smartphone market. However, at the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the world’s fastest-growing company, internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test: the entry of Apple and Google into the mobile phone market.
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.
In Losing the Signal, Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff tell the harrowing and riveting story of how we lost the connection to the BlackBerry, a communication device so innovative and addictive that it was known, among aficionados, as a CrackBerry. It's a tale of rivalries, jealousies, and missed opportunities. You won't be able to put it down.
—— WILLIAM COHAN, author of House of Cards and Money and PowerIn the tech industry, they say that you learn more from a failure than from a hit. Well, if that's true, Losing the Signal will give you a postdoctoral education. Reading the inside story of the BlackBerry's helpless flameout is like watching any other train wreck: You're horrified, but you can't look away.
—— DAVID POGUE, author of Pogue's Basics and founder of Yahootech.comLosing the Signal tells of the marriage and divorce of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, how two opposites built RIM into a world-beater and how they lost it. This is first-class reporting that reads like a juicy novel, with one amazing story after another. A terrific book.
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—— BETH COMSTOCK, vice chair of GEThe book you need in your life ... a simultaneously funny, warm, inspiring and straight-talking guide on how to go about getting shit done
—— Marie ClaireA compellingly motivational read
—— The TelegraphDeeply personal and filled with brazen, hilarious moments and cunning and frank observations, don't be surprised if you laugh out loud
—— SheerLuxeAmoruso's voice is accessible and charmingly self-deprecating without losing the effortless cool that characterizes her clothes...Being anti-establishment is teh old cool. The new cool is playing by your own rules and still winning by their standards
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—— Washington PostA power manifesto for strong, ambitious young women ... Amoruso teaches the innovative and entrepreneurial among us to play to our strengths, learn from our mistakes, and know when to break a few of the traditional rules
—— Vanity FairIf you read one book with a hashtag for a title this year, make it #GIRLBOSS
—— TechCrunchIt's easy to get the sense, reading Lean In, that Sandberg is writing for women who've already made it. #GIRLBOSS is for those who haven't, which means it is aimed at people who have nothing to lose, which makes it a much riskier and more enjoyable manifesto
—— New York MagazineFilled with great advice for all millennial women ready to take over the world
—— CosmopolitanFilled with great advice for all millennial women ready to take over the world
—— CosmopolitanOffers empowering but unapologetic mantras about taking control of your life, making the choices you want to make and knowing which rules to stick to - and which to break ... #GIRLBOSS [is] giving Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In a run for its money
—— GraziaReveals the formula for modern pop.
—— Helen Brown , Daily TelegraphAn amazing story
—— David Hepworth , Week· Lodge’s short stories are as witty and surprising as his novels.
—— Kate Saunders , The TimesHe seems so perfectly suited to the form… [A] well-observed collection that one wishes was twice as long.
—— Carl Wilkinson , Financial TimesThis is a superb analysis of modern pop music.
—— iSeabrook has written an interesting book, smearing away some of the gloss and glamour from the music industry, to reveal details of its inner workings… An interesting book overall on a global industry that has as many secrets as glitterballs.
—— Paul Cheney , Nudge