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The problem with this article is that you could write about similar infighting and bureaucracy and failed initiatives at the most successful companies, not just
by auctiontheory 13y ago
The problem with this article is that you could write about similar infighting and bureaucracy and failed initiatives at the most successful companies, not just the failures. It doesn't identify or explain what was essentially different about the BlackBerry situation.
(I don't have the answer. Maybe it's just randomness.)
- flatfilefan 13y agoMy take is that they could not manage the team growth that was supposed to support their business growth. When team was relatively small they could execute well. After they grew and had to hire just to fill those new positions random people dragged them down. The quality of late BB OS6 and 7 was awful compared to the 5th. This all happened when they were making good sales and were still growing.
- auctiontheory 13y agoOkay, then the question becomes: how or why was their HR/recruiting worse than at Apple or Google?
- flatfilefan 13y agoHarder to get (new) top people into Canada? Or just because their HR was plain worse?