At the end of the day, I guess my feeling is that it was sort of a failure to communicate.
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I believe that continued strong consumer acceptance of our products at retail and the strengthening of our organization will enable us to manage through the challenges in our U. S. footwear business and lay the foundation for another round of growth,Phil Knight
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
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Personally, I think the failure to really kind of get his arms around this company and this industry led to confusion on behalf of the management team. And I didn't see that getting any better.
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We're not in the fashion business, as the Wall Street Journal wrote the other day. We're in the sports business, and there's a big difference.
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