Samsung Girds for Life After Apple in Disruption Devotion
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Samsung Electronics Co.’s reclusive chairman has long warned employees against complacency and obsolescence.
“Change everything except your wife and kids,” Lee Kun Hee told them in 1993, charting a course that would turn a $2 billion maker of cheap TVs into the $200 billion giant it is today. Two decades on, his message remains the same: “Forget about the past and start anew,” Lee exhorted employees in his New Year’s address on Jan. 2. “We must search out new businesses that Samsung’s survival depends on.”