Jacquie McNish is a senior writer with the Globe and Mail and before that the Wall Street Journal. She has won seven National Newspaper Awards and is the author of three bestselling books, two of which won the National Business Book award. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.
Sean Silcoff is a business writer with the Globe and Mail and before that the National Post and Canadian Business magazine. He is a two-time National Newspaper Award winner. He lives near Ottawa with his wife and three children.
"In 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 post-doctoral 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.com"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: A Tale of Hubris
and Wretched Excess on Wall Street and MONEY AND POWER: How Goldman
Sachs Came to Rule the WorldFor every winner...disruption brings a
loser, and few lost bigger than the once-ubiquitous BlackBerry. The
authors show how easily even the strongest brands can fail by
underestimating their competitors. "Losing the Signal" is a good
old-fashioned insider's business narrative, the kind we don't see
enough of these days, and it should scare the pants off most CEOs."
- The Wall Street Journal"Losing 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." --Howard Green,
author of Banking on America"Losing the Signal is a riveting story
of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the
ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley... 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... Expertly
told by acclaimed journalists, McNish and 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."
--Financial Times"Unflinching" --The Daily Beast"The simple story
is that BlackBerry was rendered irrelevant by the iPhone. But the
story that the authors, Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, tell in
Losing the Signal -- our choice for the best book of 2015 on
business narratives -- is more complicated." - Strategy and
Business"[McNish and Silcoff have] produced a tragedy worthy of
Shakespeare's attention... So even as you read, with a kind of
shiver of schadenfreude, about BlackBerry's vicissitudes, there's
plenty of food for thought here about what this means on a much
broader stage." --Yahoo! Finance"In Losing the Signal, McNish and
Silcoff authoritatively chronicle the missteps that abetted
BlackBerry's fall... It's one helluva story." --Toronto Star"LOSING
THE SIGNAL [is] a saga of digital entrepreneurs who saw the future
and made it happen... This fascinating story will hold your
attention even though you know what's coming." --The Washington
Post
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