Mike Parker - On Nike

Great article on the CEO of Nike, in fast company.

I was struck by his humility and focus on Nike's business priorities.

At the end of the article, he references his choice for Nike's mission statement ""To bring inno-vation and inspiration to every athlete in the world".

Two other noteworthy quotes - which I feel are pretty inspirational.


"If you have a body, you're an athlete" and one of Nike's 9 key maxims - "Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around."

Just something to thing about ....

Windows Azure

Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform is a cloud platform offering that "provides a wide range of Internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or the Internet"[1] (though the platform itself is not made available for on-premises deployments[2]). It is Microsoft's first step into cloud computing following the launch of the Microsoft Online Services offering. In short, it's Microsoft's platform as a service.

The Windows Azure platform uses a specialized operating system, called Windows Azure, to run its "fabric layer" — a cluster hosted at Microsoft's datacenters that manages computing and storage resources of the computers and provisions the resources (or a subset of them) to applications running on top of Windows Azure.

Windows Azure has been described as a "cloud layer" on top of a number of Windows Server systems, which use Windows Server 2008 and a customized version of Hyper-V[5], known as the Windows Azure Hypervisor[6] to provide virtualization of services

Earlier this week, the NPD group reported that Android has hit the top spot in U.S. smartphone market. "Android operating system accounted for 33 percent of all smartphones sold in the U.S. consumer market. That number pushed it ahead of Research In Motion with 28 percent and Apple with 22 percent".

Learning The Basics fo Cloud Computing

Attending The ELC's Leadership Training Conference - in Vegas....

The advent of Cloud Computing

Washington Cash

Hi all, last year I started volunteering some of my time with an organization called the Washington Community Alliance for Self-Help - also known as Washington Cash.

The folks at Washington Cash organization provide very useful business training, supportive community and capital to help enterprising individuals with limited financial resources gain self-sufficiency through small business ownership.

I know a lot of people who want to help others but are not sure how to make a difference - for those of you reading this blog, I strongly encourage you to find an organization like Washington Cash and use it as an outlet to help others.

We all have plenty of useful knowledge and insights which we can share with others - if you live in Seattle area, pls take some time to learn more about Washington Cash, I'm sure you'll be impressed by the work their doing.

Cheers,

Rotimi

It's because I've failed - that I succeed

I heard Barack reference this old Michael Jordan commercial, during his speech to high school students, today. I remember how I felt the first time I watched the ad.

Here's another one - which may be even more powerful. "I have something more important than Courage - I have patience. I will become - what I know, I am".

I guess the key learning here is aspiring leaders must nurture patience, self-belief and a spirit of continuous learning.

Peace.