About this episode

This episode discusses how over-empowerment led to Nokia's decline in the cell phone market.

Nokia had 40% of the global cell phone market. Today they have about 0%. It wasn't the iPhone that killed them. It was over-empowerment.

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Matlow

Topics covered

• leadership
• business strategy
• market dynamics
• entrepreneurship
• decision making

Keywords

• Nokia
• iPhone
• over-empowerment
• leadership mistakes
• business decline

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nokia

Products: iPhone

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