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 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...
by todd@gbnonline.com | Feb 4, 2019 | Education
You may have heard the apocryphal tale that in 1899, Charles H. Duell, the commissioner of the U.S. patent office wanted to close the office because “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”[i] This was a fiction, but many other statements were true. If you...
