Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01CRJA470 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 494 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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One of the Best Books about What It's Like to Run a Fast-Growing, Innovative Business Wally Bock Most business memoirs are self-serving, boring, and poorly written. To put it bluntly, they are “crap between covers.” There are very few business memoirs that are even good, since most of them make the person writing the memoir seem like a business savant who always knew the rig. "MAGNIFICENT - One of my new favorite books" according to WKB. This book was recommended by Amazon and also made Bill Gates' best books of 2016. I purchased it in hopes of gaining insights from a successful business leader that I may apply in my professional life. While the book does a great job sharing the struggles behind building one of the most reco. gg_Amz said Do yourself a favor and read this book. Timeless wisdom, exceptional writing, laugh out loud moments, inspiration, and some heart breaking moments. Outstanding read. I read lots of business autobiographies and most are stories about how amazing they are, or they defend their business in some way, or how they just built their compa
Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. 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. 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. 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. But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. In an age of start-ups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all start-ups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today. In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company