People, Product, Process
A few insights on design, manufacturing, sustainability and management from Jeffrey Alan Henderson - Nike to Yeezy, 99 to Cole Haan.
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I Must Love Runners (opens the original)
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“Pineapple Boy” (opens the original)
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There’s a reason my perspective on design is fairly unique or rather uncommon. There are certain skills you learn, traits you develop at certain schools, institutions, programs. Especially prestigious ones. They don’t appear in any syllabus or HR manual. They are baked into the path you take and they set the tone for all of the other places whether they admit it or not.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DHgy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
Why a Job at Retail Should Start a Career (opens the original)
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Substitute Teacher (opens the original)
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My first trip to Asia was in 1997. Taichung and Jakarta. I remember landing in Hong Kong when the airport was in the middle of the city. Photos of Kai Tak Airport don’t come close to the experience. Changed how I saw the world.Next trip was Taichung and Busan. Six months later I headed to Guangzhou.I needed a visa. I remember that much clearly. It felt like a real border in a way that Taiwan, Korea, and Indonesia hadn’t. I was a young footwear designer headed to a factory floor outside Guangzhou
$170 Nike Stock (opens the original)
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I’m not great with money. I hear the numbers and follow the projections and EBITDA and quarterly reports and then lean on my accountant and financial advisor fiduciary and most importantly my wife to figure out which way is up. My primary financial gut instinct left unchecked would have had my family living on the street long ago. Or a 2% compounding mutual fund blah blah something. That said, I’ve gotten a few things right over the last half century. Property in Charlotte in 2012. Genius. Actua
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