Mia Junghae Rong

History of Nike, the Swoosh, the sweat of Phil Knights and Nike's early members are described in this fun, genuine, riveting book. Such a great story teller, Phil Knight, takes us the early days of his journey to build Blue Ribbon, and eventually Nike till its IPO in 1979. This book will make you want to finish the book in one seating.  This book was chosen as a part of our book club meeting (ABBA - Adobe Business Book Association), I created late last year. I would not have chosen such book without this external influence. For that, I would say I was lucky!  In Shoe Dog, Phil narrates monumental events for each year chronologically. Phil's life is full of adventure from his traveling around the world at the age of 26 to the journey of building Nike that you know now. What a journey! He believes in product. He is a risk-driven. He manages his business in a way that any odd will put him under easily ('live on the float' was the term). He is eccentric. He i

It had so much nuggets of wisdom for building product and growing a company, sometimes contradictory, sometimes philosophical. I would keep this on a shelf, and take out whenever I want any directional advice. It is not a book that increases your expertise on a certain area. It will be a book to get a little glimpse about how Scott thinks about the world.  The book contains such a wide range of topics. It has three big chunk. Endure, Optimize, Finish Line. All of the messy middle - Endure, Optimize - is extremely difficult, however in my personal opinion, finishing well is the most important. How would you determine anyone being successful or failed? Abraham Lincoln failed many consecutive years prior to him becoming the US president.  Is it a middle or finish line? I'd say 'finishing well' is more important.  That said, I appreciated Scott shared the two examples of his family members about finish line. His grandfather, Stanley Kaplan, suffered from depr