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.
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.
作者:杨斌,清华大学副校长兼教务长,清华大学经济管理学院教授、博导 从2006年起,每年的8月初,清华大学经济管理学院、中欧国际工商学院和哈佛商学院联合举办的高层经理培训项目(SEPC)都会在清华校园进行第一个模块的学习。在头两天半的时间里,这些来自全球各地、百战归...
评分- 要多读书,多读历史书,战争和传记。 -作者对自己的白描:I wasn't built for heavy doses of rejection。这么一个害羞内向的人,基本就是靠环球旅行和大量阅读的加持。 -要多走路:Hawaii, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rangoon, Calcutta, Bombay, Saigon, Kathmandu, Cairo, Ista...
评分经朋友推荐,花了一周时间终于啃下了这本书。我一向对自传书不是很感冒,而这本书却远远超过了我的预期。甚至硬生生地让我对Nike路转粉! 这本厚厚的自传,满满都是真诚和随意的笔触。最难得的是,你能发现他几乎是不带有任何美化的态度去面对自己走过的路。一大堆错误和失败就...
Audio 听了三个月才听完。故事好,写得也好。
评分很庆幸在人生的这个阶段读到这本书。Phil常常提到来自童年时期以的insecurity, 以至于一次退休了的Phil和妻子在街上遇到了比尔盖茨和巴菲特,假装拉家常的时候心里还在想着自己的身家跟这两位比低了好多倍,心里有点被intimidated到。同样insecure的我读到这里会心一笑,紧接着又是一声叹息:“诶原来这缺乏安全感的毛病真是要伴随终身了啊!”但愿我能像Phill一样,借着这因为缺乏安全感而永远unsettling的心,一直追随所谓的calling。Don't stop.
评分Very honored to have read this at the beginning of my Swoosh journey.
评分以前一直都知道创业不简单。但是读完这本书之后你才真正明白创业为什么不简单。
评分以前一直都知道创业不简单。但是读完这本书之后你才真正明白创业为什么不简单。
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