http://web.archive.org/web/20040202013445/http://www.businessweek.com/
magazine/content/04_02/b3865725.htm.
a joint venture to manufacture LCDs: Moon Ihlwan, “Samsung and Sony’s Win-Win
LCD Venture,” Bloomberg, November 29, 2006, https://www.bloomberg.com/
news/articles/2006-11-28/samsung-and-sonys-win-win-lcd-
venturebusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice.
worst managers of the year: “Best and Worst Managers of 2003: Nobuyuki Idei.”
one of the best: “The Top 25 Managers of the Year,” BusinessWeek, January 11,
- The ranking is no longer available online. The physical magazine is in
the author’s possession.
15: BORDEAUX
“to put food on the table”: Reuters, “Downfall of Ex–Samsung Strategy Chief Choi
Gee Sung Leaves ‘Salarymen’ Disillusioned,” The Straits Times, August 25,
2017, https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/downfall-of-ex-samsung-
strategy-chief-choi-gee-sung-leaves-salarymen-disillusioned.
“To overcome his weakness”: Eun Y. Kim and Edward C. Valdez, Samsung 3.0:
Talent, Technology and Timing: 88 Things You Need to Know About Samsung
(Austin, TX: CEO International, 2013), p. 132.
“I was often impressed”: James Sanduski, interview by the author, January 3, 2017.
G.S. was expected to mentor: “Lee Jae-yong and Choi Gee-sung: New Leadership
Team at Samsung,” Hankyoreh, December 16, 2009, http://english.hani.co.kr/
arti/english_edition/e_business/393675.html.
“The whole room would stand”: Peter Skarzynski, interview by the author,
December 28, 2016.
direct, substantive statements: Max Kim, “The Woes of Jay Y: Can the Galaxy S6
Save Samsung’s Crown Prince?” The Guardian, April 20, 2015,
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/20/samsung-galaxy-s6-
woes-of-samsung-crown-prince-lee-jae-yong.
“He’s sort of like a god”: Daren Tsui, interview by the author, January 10, 2017.
“thirty-year veteran Park Gwang-gi”: Adam Lashinsky, “Can Samsung’s New
Leader Dethrone Apple?” Forbes, July 27, 2015, http://fortune.com/2015/07/
27/samsung-jay-lee/.
“He’s exactly the kind of guy”: Peter Weedfald, interview by the author, February
24, 2016.
“I had the impression”: T.J. Kang, interview by the author, January 29, 2016.
“He’s nice...but he doesn’t have”: Samsung mobile employee, interview by the
author, February 16, 2016.
