FedEx Delivers: How the World's Leading Shipping Company Keeps Innovating and Outperforming the Competition

ISBN: 978-0-471-71579-5

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240 pages

August 2013

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FedEx Veteran and Insider: Birla was an executive at FedEx for 22 years. He joined the management team in 1979 when revenues were $400 million, when he left revenue had grown to $22 billion. Birla was a member of the Long Range Planning Committee where he worked closely with CEO Fred Smith. Birla still is considered an insider with many connections to the FedEx Leadership Institute; the last three years of his career he traveled the world facilitating the Leading for Innovation leadership development course.
FedEx Still Strong, After All These Years: FedEx, along with GE has been one of the business media’s darlings, year-after-year the company has enjoyed phenomenal growth and is known for its innovative systems and management practices.
One of the greatest entrepreneurial success stories this century: Starting out with the legendary Yale term paper, becoming the largest single venture capital start up in the history of the US, and culminating in multibillion dollar international corporation, this is the inside story of the challenges and innovations this pioneering company has experienced.
This book takes the mystery out of innovation. It presents a step-by-step blueprint for building and sustaining an innovation culture that shows how leaders and organizations can make creative thinking and innovation a part of the infrastructure of the company.
In addition to the managers who will use this book to build and sustain an innovation and performance culture, corporate trainers will find FedEx Delivers to be an ideal resource for their leadership development programs. Academicians will use FedEx Delivers in their classes in leadership, innovation, engineering-management, international business, and organization development.