In a recent interview with CNBC, Nike CEO John Donahoe said remote work was a major factor in the company's relative lack of new products. Less directly, he also raised a great point about how to make important business decisions: "What's been missing is the kind of bold, disruptive innovation that Nike's known for and when we look back, the reasons are fairly straightforward," said Donahoe, but "even more importantly," Nike's employees worked from home for 2.5 years during the pandemic. "In hindsight, it turns out, it's really hard to do bold, disruptive innovation, to develop a boldly disruptive shoe on Zoom. Our teams came back together 18 months ago in person, and we recognize this. So we realigned our company, and over the last year we have been ruthlessly focused on rebuilding our disruptive innovation pipeline along with our iterative innovation pipeline."