Philip H. Knight
Founder & CEO, Nike, Inc.
Bowerman Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005-6453
Phone: 503-671-6453
Fax: 503-671-6300

Mr. Dennis Dwyer,
Senior Manager, Footwear Division
Research and Development
Subject: Managing Across Nike, Inc., Footwear Division

Dear Dennis,

Welcome to Nike, Inc. Footwear Division. Our year-to-date footwear sales represent 54% of total revenues for the Nike, brand and its subsidiaries. Your role in research and development strategically supports our company’s objectives as it strives to continuously outdistance our competitors in a capricious consumer market.
Your critical partnerships within the organization will include Vice President and CFO, Donald W. Blair, President, Mark G. Parker, Divisional Vice President and General Manager, Craig Zanon, Vice President, New Business Development, Clare L. Hamill, General Manager, Kirk Richardson, and our new Director of Communications, Jack Gold. These committed, knowledgeable, trend-setting groups of managers are here to support you and your teams. They are the chief cornerstones from which to build your network. [...]

Project management concepts and processes are being implemented in the strategic planning of service and operational processes. The technique involves re-engineering processes with new and innovative ideas and therefore more effective, productive, and efficient ways of doing business.

To realize the comprehensive business goals of the project, management must adapt to the market dynamics, maintain operations, and functionality of the organization, implement continuous process improvement, and seek customer satisfaction. [...]

As of this very second;

I am willing to let go of what I think is acceptable, permissible, correct, feasible, achievable, mature, or predictable;

I no longer need to fit in anymore,

in this world of doubt,

despair,

discouragement,

prone to endless striving,

complaining

belittling, and needless

suffering,

I relinquish the undermining philosophies of the pragmatic world—

and choose instead more;

more self-determining,

firecracker,

celebrating,

birth-giving thoughts. [...]

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