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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them.

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Is It Possible for Companies to Over-Innovate?

IdeaScale

Motorola’s RAZR and RIM’s BlackBerry were cutting-edge until 2007 when the iPhone arrived and made both of them utterly irrelevant in the time it took to explain what an “iPhone” even was. To get a balanced, smart innovation strategy, request a demo. Is it their biggest concern? Secondly, always consider the future.

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