by todd@gbnonline.com | Mar 18, 2019 | Education
This is the final lesson I will draw from Nike, and then we will move on. In the last lesson we reviewed the many problems that Phil Knight faced as he built Nike from the ground up. Today’s lesson is about Knight’s method for overcoming the many problems he faced....
by todd@gbnonline.com | Mar 18, 2019 | Education
In the last lesson, we reviewed Phil Knight’s method for overcoming the many problems he faced. He called it his nightly catechism. As I read Knight’s words in Shoe Dog, I was reminded of a similar process that saved a number of lives. It was used by Hal Moore in a...
by todd@gbnonline.com | Mar 10, 2019 | Education
Sometimes we look at a modern success story and we get a false impression about what actually happened in the past. We see only the victories; we forget about the obstacles that were overcome along the way. I take a strange comfort in knowing that while Thomas...
by todd@gbnonline.com | Mar 4, 2019 | Education
In the last lesson, we talked about how the swoosh was created. About the time that Carolyn Davis was drawing the swoosh, Knight had another problem. He also needed to come up with a name for his new shoes. If the story of the swoosh was remarkable, the story of the...