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November Reading List: 4 Best Books I Read in November 2025
The Thanksgiving holiday, like Christmas, gives me a natural pause to reflect on what I’ve read this year and where I want my reading to take me next. My November reading list includes Sam Walton: Made In America, The Red Bull Story: The Unbelievable Success of Dietrich Mateschitz and His Energy Drink Empire, It’s How…
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Work That Feels Like Play: What Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog Teaches About Ambition, Burnout, and Fatherhood
Finding work that feels like play is the holy grail of a career. Phil Knight returns to this idea again and again in Shoe Dog. To him, building something meaningful shouldn’t feel like a burden; it should feel alive. When work feels playful, it can feel like bliss. But at the same time, immersion can…
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How Nike Was Built: Truth-Telling, Shoe Dogs, and Phil Knight’s Calling
Phil Knight packs Shoe Dog with leadership and entrepreneurial lessons—most of them learned along the way. The themes I keep coming back to are simple: don’t micromanage, manufacture motivation, obsess over craft, tell the truth, contribute, and find your calling. For Knight, leadership starts with a counterintuitive discipline: don’t tell people how—tell them what, then…
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Just Don’t Stop: What Nike’s Phil Knight Learned About Winning
Legendary Nike founder Phil Knight has a simple mantra in Shoe Dog: just don’t stop. You’ll want to quit—everyone does—but you can’t let the urge win. The book circles a handful of themes: doubt, momentum, growth versus safety, fear of failure, and stubborn refusal to lose. Long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine captured it perfectly: “Somebody may…
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Honing the Sword: Jensen Huang on Conflict, Clear Thinking, and Fundamentals
Mastering the fundamentals is preached throughout the sports world. It’s also a theme, along with the phrase, “honing the sword,” that anyone working under Nvidia’s Jensen Huang often hears. Jensen is obsessed with fundamentals and has a clarity of thinking that’s second to none. Add in his willingness to have healthy conflict, and you get…
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