Losing the Signal: Jacquie McNish

The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

Losing the Signal is the riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed; instead, the rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway.

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 a small Canadian city and went on to control half of the US smartphone market. However, at the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the world’s fastest-growing company, internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test: the entry of Apple and Google into the mobile phone market.

Expertly told by acclaimed journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean 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.

Winner of the Canadian National Business Book Award 2016;

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015;

About the Author

Jacquie McNish is a Senior Writer with the Globe and Mail. She is also an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School where she co-teaches a third year law seminar on shareholder rights and the media. She has worked in Canada and the United States for The Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail. She is the winner of seven National Newspaper Awards and the author of three best selling books: The Big Score: Robert Friedland and the Voisey's Bay Hustle; Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black, the 2004 National Business Book Award winner  co-authored with Sinclair Stewart; and The Third Rail, 2013 National Business Book winner, co-authored with Jim Leech. She is also the co-author of Losing the Signal; the Remarkable Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry, due for release April, 2015.