Business Standard: “Apple in China – The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company has been written by Patrick McGee, a Financial Times journalist based in San Francisco and responsible for covering Apple. The book tells two intersecting stories. First, how Apple moved from being just days away from bankruptcy in 1996 to becoming the most valuable company in the world within a span of 15 years. Second, it traces the contribution Apple has made to transforming China from a third-world, low-skill manufacturing base into the world’s largest and most sophisticated manufacturing location — a hub for advanced manufacturing.”
FT: “Politics may be downstream of culture, but culture is downstream of technology: and it is not clear how British democracy will be able to thrive without that shared sense of reality and culture, created in the last century, in part, by a shared media…Fragmentation of both our entertainment and our news harms societies as well.”
WSJ reviews The Triumph of Economic Freedom: “A common theme throughout the book is the extent to which government intervention has either made situations worse during crises or impeded economic progress in other periods. Policymakers, meanwhile, have repeatedly exacerbated matters by misdiagnosing the problems confronting them or by doubling down on failed policies.”
McKinsey: “Media businesses, creators, marketers, and brands have tracked this high-stakes competition for consumer attention but often equate it to a contest for consumption, comparing box scores of hours watched or eyeballs reached. This focus on the quantity of time spent—or the size of audience—overlooks a more important issue: the quality of time spent. Not all consumer attention is created equal. Consumption and monetization vary widely across 20 major mediums in the attention economy, and differing levels of attention are a key reason for that variability. New McKinsey research suggests that the media business has been missing the full story on consumer attention. Backed by an in-depth survey of 7,000 consumers worldwide—including 3,000 in the United States, which form the basis for this report—we have developed an “attention equation” that reveals the full drivers of attention value.1 Attention doesn’t simply equal the amount of time spent; it equals the amount of valuable time spent, driven by focus and intent.”
