Losing the Signal Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
111

Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff Book Summary

THE BASIS FOR IFC FILMS' BLACKBERRY
Named a Best Business Book by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, and more

The riveting, true story of the BlackBerry empire—and how it would eventually come crumbling down in the wake of the smartphone revolution

"One helluva story.” ―Toronto Star

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 email 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 world's fastest growing company internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test: Apple and Google's 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.

👋 Do you love Losing the Signal books? Please share your friends!

share facebook whatsapp twitter pinterest telegram email
Book Name Losing the Signal
Genre Business & Personal Finance
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1 MB

Losing the Signal (Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff) Book Reviews 2024

💸 Want to send money abroad for free?

We transfer money over €4 billion every month. We enable individual and business accounts to save 4 million Euros on bank transfer fees. Want to send free money abroad or transfer money abroad for free? Free international money transfer!

Blackberry the rise and incredible fall. This book was absolutely amazing as I was, like most people, a blackberry user and loved the phone and always wondered how and why they completely missed the boat on smart phones. Now I know. I highly recommend this book to all !!

Traces the inevitable collapse. I read Losing The Signal last week. It suffers from being rushed out (lots of typos, for example), but it accomplishes its primary goal: after you read it, you'll have no doubts as to why RIM collapsed. They were a company that had one good idea and no idea how to follow it up. Sometimes you'll read a story and think to yourself "if only they'd done this one thing different, they would have survived." That was most definitely not the case with RIM. Their management kept doing amazingly boneheaded things, one after the next. Just one example: at a trade show where Verizon announced they would be investing massively in LTE, one of RIM's co-CEOs (Lazaridis) spent an entire meeting lecturing Verizon's management about why nobody needed 4G.

Excellent read. Excellent candidate glimpse into the failed thought process of Rims management throughout the years.

Interesting but incomplete. The book gets off to a slow beginning while recalling the experiences of both men while they were children. It becomes much more interesting while recalling the growth and fall of the company. I remember much of this as it unfolded, but the book fills in many details. However, the end is rushed after the two resign. The two years of Heins is given one page, at most, and the year plus of Chen is given even less. The book seems to end on an upbeat note which isn't based in reality. I would have preferred much more detail of Heins's era, and that of the current Chen.

Excellent Story of the Rise and Fall. This is was an insider view of the rise and fall of RIM, as a consumer I watched from the sidelines and this was a facinating insider reivew of history. The authors have really gotten inside what happened at this once iconic brand.

💰 A universe of opportunities: Payoneer

Did you know that you can earn 25 USD from our site just by registering? Get $25 for free by joining Payoneer!

🧠 Join the movement! Experience the world's No.1 brain supplement

Imagine you at your best. All the time. Picture yourself at your sharpest and most productive. Your most alert and focused. Your most lucid, creative and confident. At work. At play. In every area of your life. Add Mind Lab Pro® v4.0 to your daily routine and uncap your true potential. Buy Now!

👉 Are you looking for an Adsense alternative advertising platform?

Adsterra is the most preferred ad network for those looking for an alternative to AdSense. Adsterra is the ideal choice for new sites with low daily traffic. In order to advertise on the site in Adsterra, like other ad networks, a certain traffic limit, domain age, etc. is required. There are no strict rules. Sign up!

Please wait! Losing the Signal book comments loading...

Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff - Losing the Signal Discussions & Comments

Have you read this book yet? What do you think about Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff book? Ask the bookpedia.co community a question about Losing the Signal!

Losing the Signal E-book (PDF, PUB, KINDLE) Download

Losing the Signal ebook losing-the-signal (1 MB) download new links will be update!

Losing the Signal Similar Books

Book Name Score Reviews Price
Think and Grow Rich 4/5 2,967 Free
Blink 4/5 917 $11.99
A Taste of Irrationality 4/5 352 Free
Outliers 4.5/5 3,184 $12.99
Good to Great 4/5 685 $15.99

Enhance sleep, vision, cognition, flexibility, energy, long-range health and more. Performance Lab CORE Formulas support all aspects of human performance, across all walks of life. Boosts work performance and productivity with nootropics for focus, multitasking under stress, creative problem-solving and more.

Other Books from Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff
Book Name Score Reviews Price
The Third Rail 0/5 0 $14.99

Summary of Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff

The Losing the Signal book written by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff was published on 26 May 2015, Tuesday in the Business & Personal Finance category. A total of 111 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

Free Business & Personal Finance Books

Coinbase is the world's most trusted place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Open an account today, and if you buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin!

Paid Business & Personal Finance Books
Book Name Author Price
Unreasonable Hospitality Will Guidara $1.99
Plunder Brendan Ballou $3.99
The Personal MBA 10th Anniversary Edition Josh Kaufman $15.99
Getting Things Done David Allen $14.99
Broken Money Lyn Alden $9.99

Jasper is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create content tailored for your brand 10X faster, wherever you work online.