Rapid Response: Scaling when you’re already at scale, w/Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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As the global chip shortage unfolded last year, Qualcomm’s engineers quickly redesigned their products – an effort that tapped into “every possible capacity we could find,” says CEO Cristiano Amon. Their story is a great lesson in how an established company can and must move with the speed of a startup. One key to moving at speed, says Amon: aligning the entire organization around a single strategy. But along with an all-hands effort, he insists, must also come time to rest. “Everything's new, everything's always changing, we have to move fast, but at the end of the day, we also need time for ourselves and our family,” he reminds us.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, it's Alex Morris, a star writer here at Massive Scale.
0:04.1	Every week on Massive Scale Rapid Response, you hear real insights from business leaders,
0:09.5	and many of you have said that these episodes help you make more informed decisions in fast
0:13.9	changing situations.
0:15.6	So we want to tell you about another fantastic business podcast that can help you stay
0:20.4	in the know.
0:21.4	It's called Business Daily from the BBC, and it's all about the daily drama of money and
0:26.3	work.
0:27.3	From the environment to the world economy, you'll hear all about the rapidly evolving
0:31.4	world of business on a global scale.
0:34.1	There are new episodes of Business Daily every day, Monday through Friday, and you can listen
0:39.0	wherever you get your BBC podcast.
0:41.6	Again, that's Business Daily from the BBC.
0:46.6	When electricity started, you'll have a conversation about use cases.
0:50.6	Maybe I can have a light bulb, I can power a motor.
0:54.3	Now, you don't talk about use cases, you just assume electricity will be there.
0:59.3	And that's how we should be thinking about connectivity to the internet, connectivity
1:03.3	to the cloud.
1:06.6	We are connecting everything to the cloud, 100% of the time.
1:11.9	We made technologies that people thought it would never work.
1:15.8	Crisis gave us focus.
1:18.6	Look at that page and say, I understand the strategy, I understand how I fit into the
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