Reading Reflection 1

Reading Reflection 1

1.
The most surprising thing to me was the fact that although Blue Ribbon, Nike were both million dollar companies, the people who worked for them including Phil Knight did not make a ton of money for a very long time.

The thing I admired the most about Phil is that he was very open with his weaknesses, but despite his weaknesses he never gave up no matter the obstacle.

There is not many things that I did not like about Phil, but if I had to pick one thing, I would say that I did not admire his occasional immoral business tactics. There were some situations where he had to hide certain things, as well as lie. Obviously it all ended up working out for him.

Phil encountered a ton of adversity, but not a ton of failure. During adversity Phil did a lot of thinking. On many occasions, the book talked about Phil sitting in his recliner for hours at night thinking about solutions. He always asked himself "what do I know?" He would also get advice from his dad, and others with more experience.

2.
The main competencies were leadership, great thinker, and he was a Shoe Dog! there were other things that he was formidable at, but his employees were better than him at most things. He was just a great leader.

3.
The one thing that did not make much since to me was the fact that they were making a ton of money, but they consistently had a very small cash balance.  

4.
You write in your book that you have always been a shy man, did this ever change with the more money you made? Did more confidence come with more money?

If you could do one thing different what would it be and why?

5.
Phil states throughout his book that what ever he did as a profession he had to have fun. He said that hard work had to feel fun.
I agree with Phil that ideally hard work should be fun, but I do think that there will be sometimes it wont be fun, but instead more of a grind.