Is Samsung developing phone in agile method?

I ended up watching about 25 minutes of Samsung Galaxy S4 launch event at NYC Radio City.  While I was watching, multiple thoughts ran through my head.  I wanted to share some of them.

Samsung needs crisis culture with room for failure

It's nice to dream about a workplace that is stress-free and devoid of emotional boss.  But it's not going to happen.  Most workplaces will have plenty of stress and emotionally charged boss who will give you an assignment while you are already working on a critical assignment.  Welcome to private sector.

One of primary examples is creating sense of crisis.  Often company creates sense of crisis to get the most out of each employee.  "Because our competitors are beating us", "because market is not going to wait for us", etc. are reasons cited by management team to fear and uncertainty among employees.  When employees are called to put out a fire, they rally behind it to meet the immediate objective.  So employers tend to use this tactic to get the extra mileage from everyone.  It unites the team behind a singular goal, and that's been field-tested to increase productivity.

But what happens when employees are consistently called to handle crisis?  What if everyone is asked to embrace crisis culture?

Samsung is well known for its crisis-driven management by following the leader.
It's time to think about how to fail-fast with new ideas.

There are only losers in patent war

Jurors just awarded $1.05 billion to Apple against Samsung.  Samsung's claim of "form follows function" did not fly.  Apple just won a huge victory against Samsung.  Samsung lost big.  Although Samsung will appeal, it's not clear whether Samsung will be able to reverse the verdict completely.

So what does this verdict mean to you and me?