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When Apple's executives took the stage in Cupertino yesterday, they weren't just listing off the new features and products. They were giving a master class in how to design and market world-class products. Here are a few of the lessons we took home:

Watch what's working in one product line, and adapt it to your other product lines ...

Companies with multiple product lines often run them as separate fiefdoms, rarely interacting, other than occasional hobnobbing among their executives. Few share their lessons well. Apple showed yesterday that it's one of them. "We invented some new things [for the iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS], and we've perfected it over the last several years," Jobs said. "We're inspired by some of those innovations in the iPad and the iPhone [and] we'd like to bring them back to the Mac."

To read the full, original article click on this link: Five Leadership Lessons From the Lion Launch | Fast Company

Author: E.B. Boyd