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发表于2024-12-22
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In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.
But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.
Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.
One of the world’s most influential business executives, Phil Knight is the founder of NIKE, Inc. He served as CEO of the company from 1964 to 2004 and continues to this day as Board Chairman. He lives in Oregon with his wife Penny.
20160609-20160708。本书只是讲了耐克草创时期的人和事。他害羞内向的性格,他无限热爱的事业,他的志同道合的朋友们,他的感情史,他面对竞争对手的害怕和绝地反击。作者一直说他害羞,其实书中不乏笑点,想必也是一个闷骚男。
评分写得太感人了,一点架子也没有,发自内心,最后我看哭了
评分印象最深的还是 1971-1975的部分,一直有那么多让人为它的命悬一线而屏息凝神的时刻。很多让我想起我们当时在领导力计划时看John Adams的感受——那些后来看起来意义重大的历程,其实哪里有那么多肃穆齐整的时刻,都是踉踉跄跄、跌跌撞撞,在各种混乱与捉襟见肘中筹措应对(scramble),拖着腿走、滚、爬、往前行,然而就这样坚持下来。
评分20160609-20160708。本书只是讲了耐克草创时期的人和事。他害羞内向的性格,他无限热爱的事业,他的志同道合的朋友们,他的感情史,他面对竞争对手的害怕和绝地反击。作者一直说他害羞,其实书中不乏笑点,想必也是一个闷骚男。
评分好些重要的人物Bowerman,Strasser,Woodell,Johnson……形象都描绘得异常立体,跃然纸上。我是对球鞋几乎毫无兴趣的人,十几年来Nike/Adidas/Puma发音都是错的,但看这本书却津津有味。虽然不知为何写到八十年代Nike上市之后戛然而止。米有细写和乔丹的合作,血汗工厂神马的。我很喜欢作者字里行间展现出的不动声色的幽默,让我想起何伟的文风。我最喜欢的一小段是在跟日本人打官司时候,Phil每天给儿子讲完bed time story,他会坐回到客厅的recliner上,给曾经并不亲近的老爸打电话讨论案件,time for his own bed time story. 最后一章写身边人的离去和bucket list,我又俗套地一边听着一边哭了。好真诚的一个人。
跑步不仅痛苦、冒险,而且回报甚少,也完全没有保障。在绕着椭圆形跑道或道路跑步时,根本不存在真正的目的地,至少没有任何东西可以完全证明个人努力的合理性。跑步这个动作本身就是目的地,不仅是因为没有终点线,也是因为你可以自己定义终点。不论你从跑步中获得何种愉悦或...
评分跑步不仅痛苦、冒险,而且回报甚少,也完全没有保障。在绕着椭圆形跑道或道路跑步时,根本不存在真正的目的地,至少没有任何东西可以完全证明个人努力的合理性。跑步这个动作本身就是目的地,不仅是因为没有终点线,也是因为你可以自己定义终点。不论你从跑步中获得何种愉悦或...
评分Phil is blessed to build a formidable team, he and the team members are both have inborn need to prove themselves. A business professor who studied NIKE used to point out that ”If one manager at a company can think tactically and strategically, that compan...
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