The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry with Jacquie McNish

BlackBerry once ruled the business world.

Presidents, CEOs, and Wall Street relied on its encrypted devices. Then the iPhone arrived — and everything changed.

In this episode, Jacquie McNish, co-author of Losing the Signal, unpacks the untold story behind:

• The improbable rise of Research In Motion
• The 2011 global outage crisis
• The NTP patent war
• 9/11 and encrypted messaging dominance
• The internal fracture between Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
• The Storm failure
• The QNX pivot and BlackBerry's second act

A fascinating case study in leadership psychology, technological disruption, and strategic inflection points.

This is a masterclass in: Innovation Leadership Disruption Scaling culture Strategic blindness Corporate inflection points

📘 Book: Losing the Signal by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff https://amzn.to/4tVBHWk

🎙 Hosted by Aidan McCullen Aidan McCullen is a Thinkers50 Innovation Award winner, recognised for his contribution to global innovation practice through The Innovation Show.

Aidan is a Global and Irish Keynote speaker recognized for his engaging storytelling style and his bestselling book Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention. The Innovation Show remains the only podcast ever to receive a Thinkers50 award, and Aidan is only the second Irish person—after Charles Handy—to be honoured.

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