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I hear you but you're missing Gassée's key point. You can't just hire/acquire. There has to be a cultural fit too. Acquisitions without cultural fit don't neces
by abalone 11y ago
I hear you but you're missing Gassée's key point. You can't just hire/acquire. There has to be a cultural fit too. Acquisitions without cultural fit don't necessarily work.
"I am one of the many who believe culture always wins. Culture eats strategy for breakfast, it causes mergers and acquisitions to fail and, above all, it resists virile executive calls to change. Culture evolves slowly, as if having its own independent will, or not at all."
How do you think the culture of those safety-critical companies compares to Apple's today? (But yes, like Alphabet maybe Apple is restructuring internally to better cultivate this culture.)
- nostrademons 11y agoI figure that Google/Apple are both going to set up autonomous divisions within the company to work on their car stuff. When you have a division with few interactions with the rest of the company, it has a chance to develop its own culture, and usually takes on the personality of the leader and senior people. Android had a very Apple flavor before Sundar took it over (Andy Rubin started his career at Apple, then worked at Apple spin-off General Magic). Google+ had a very Microsoft flavor under former Microsoft exec Vic Gundotra. Both of these moderated as they came in closer contact with the rest of the organization, but in their early days, there were pretty steep walls protecting them from the rest of the company.