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Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too. Adam Lashinsky
Profit Too Spending Given Investors Droughts Over Alphabet Idle Causing Years Amazon Stock Microsoft Engine Products Suffered Growth
Dynamic pricing - charging more when goods and services are in high demand and short supply and less when the opposite is true - isn't new. Gasoline retailers, hoteliers, and airlines have been deploying the technique for years. Adam Lashinsky
Airlines High Charging More Pricing Supply True Demand New Goods Opposite Been Years Short Deploying Dynamic Less Technique Services Gasoline
Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult. Adam Lashinsky
Business Creativity Innovation Difficult Merely Like Concept Grail Achieving Explaining Holy Holy Grail Even
Salesforce employees are so immersed in the fervor over their offerings and their unique workplace that they are nearly incredulous to learn that few people beyond the legions of customers using Salesforce's product have the faintest idea what the company does. Adam Lashinsky
People Employees Few Immersed Idea Over Beyond Learn Does Fervor Few People Customers Product Workplace Unique Using Company Nearly
I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all. Adam Lashinsky
Aim Entertainer Days Like Know Still Been Existed Heard Confess Public Public Figures Figures
AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers. Adam Lashinsky
Time Generation People Communicate Phone Before Aim Once Way Intoxicating Computers Had Powerful Buddy Quaint Around Quick Lists Bursts Organized Users
Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that. Adam Lashinsky
Day Every Day Ride Fear Losing Fly Control Every Airplane Computers Vehicles Forced Efficient American Same Autonomous Largely Flown
Should Ford succeed in equipping all its cars with information that gets communicated back to its servers, it will become a 'big data' company, a beyond-vehicles opportunity that is as promising as it is murky. Adam Lashinsky
Opportunity Car Will Big Become Back Promising Data Ford Gets Information Succeed Should Company Murky
Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping off the work of more talented journalists and then playing Google's digitally native games better than the old fogeys ever could. Adam Lashinsky
Work Business Post Better Old Google Sold Later Hundreds Insider Ripping Online More Could Journalists Talented Like Built Dollars Off Than Sites Native Then Games Businesses Ever Millions Playing Millions Of Dollars
I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally. Adam Lashinsky
Corporations Everywhere About Written Repeatedly Quest Transform Themselves
Apple is a military-like command-and-control organization where people lower down in the organization manage up. They are constantly preparing their boss who may be preparing their boss and their boss for a presentation to the CEO or to the executive team. Adam Lashinsky
People Organization Down Constantly Boss Executive Up Manage May Where CEO Lower Team Who Preparing Apple Presentation
If you crave further confirmation that Silicon Valley is a magical place where magical thinking reigns, consider the tale of Roku, the video streaming company that filed to go public Friday, when alert people everywhere were headed out for a long weekend. Adam Lashinsky
You People Long Thinking Consider Valley Everywhere Further Out Silicon Silicon Valley Magical Weekend Headed Tale Go Were Friday Where Confirmation Crave Place Public Video Company Reigns Streaming Alert
Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls 'players'; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the video publishers on its platform. Adam Lashinsky
Money Ways Taking Advertising Calls Revenues Selling Which Video Cut Platform Publishers Hardware Players Two
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day. Adam Lashinsky
Success Day Failure Reality Money Will Become Too One Day Neither Dream Magic Investors Nevertheless Because Nor Any Public Ask Means Right
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime. Adam Michnik
Freedom Struggle Revenge Power First Revolution Every Defined First Phase Bloody Regime Phase Second Phases Two
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. Adam Michnik
Work War Myself Day Own Consider Though My Own Countries Sure Iraq Links Did Mourning Flags Against Lower Even Started
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. Adam Michnik
You Signals More Outside Powerful Likely Blind Deaf Much
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly. Adam Michnik
Man Country Believe Only He Clearly Look His Useful
Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits. Adam Michnik
Politics Art Political Goals Situation Possible Given Limits Conditions Achieving
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms. Adam Michnik
Politicians Action Analyzed Purely Like Terms Pragmatic Unethical Ethical
The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient. Adam Michnik
Time You Change Will Be Patient Islam Patient Liberal Otherwise Threat Russia Take America China Europe
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.' Adam Michnik
Work Socialism Face Party Spring Revolution Others Members About Main Between Velvet Mostly Prague Human Difference Wanted Former Human Face Communist Communist Party Who Bring
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past. Adam Michnik
War World Country Past Ideals Democratic Were Rooted Communist Appealed Czechoslovakia Deeply World War
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution. Adam Michnik
War You Justice Pure Revolution Logic Reconciliation Civil Civil War Between Leads New Know Prefer Choose
I'm definitely an independent person, and I don't need boyfriends all the time. Amanda Hearst
Time Definitely Independent Boyfriend Person Need
Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites. Amanda Hearst
Walk See Charm Like Houses Trade Islands Friendly Shops Painted Original Compared Streets Kept Funky
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