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Zusatztext "This book is the manual for entrepreneurs with big dreams. Frock has documented, through personal experience and painstaking research, one of America's most successful start-ups. He provides the critical ingredients for bringing a major dream to life—no matter what the business or endeavor." — Michael Basch, CEO, Nature's Lighting, author of Customer Culture: How FedEx and Other Great Companies Keep the Customer First Every Day “Early on, Frock recognized the value of international service and calculated that the global market would eventually need and support the FedEx business model. We worked closely with him to establish their first cross border network between the US and Canada. His vision helped us to become the most successful player in the Canadian market.” — Simon Caviezel, President and CEO, Cansica, Inc., Federal Express Canadian Licensee “[This book] explains the vital importance that enthusiasm and passion play in people who tackle seemingly overwhelming obstacles and find a way to make it work. In many ways, the Porsche turnaround that I [led] in the 1980s was an application of the management concepts detailed in Changing the Way the World Does Business . Properly applied, these concepts can people to rise to a performance level that achieves business miracles in an increasingly competitive world.” — Peter W. Schutz, former head of Porsche “The success-laden secrets of a corporate giant’s heart and soul are revealed as Frock shares his personal experiences and entrepreneurial views with a keenness that is at once exciting and enlightening… Changing How the World Does Business reflects [Frock’s] ethical nature from which success of gigantic proportions was realized as the global giant known to us all as FedEx.” — Linda G. Sapia, former Manager, FedEx “Tomorrow’s leaders will be encouraged by this exciting succession of experiences that ‘Changed the Way the World Does Business.’” —The Honorable Roger W. Kallock, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Logistics and Material Readiness, and Chairman, Chagrin Consulting Associates Informationen zum Autor Roger Frock is president of Quest Management, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in supply chain management. He has been a guest speaker at the National Council of Physical Distribution Management (now the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals), the American Management Association, and the American Trucking Association, and has made frequent presentations to other industry associations and private business groups on a variety of subjects. Klappentext From one of the founding executives of FedEx comes the first full inside story of how Fed Ex came to be one of the world's most successful, innovative, and admired companies Frock reveals the details of how the company was conceived, launched, kept afloat despite incredible obstacles. The story contains examples like pilots using their personal credit cards to gas up the planesemployees deferring cashing their paychecksand Fred Smith gambling with FedEx last 40,000 Vegas to win a week's worth of operational expensesA Case History of Courage and Tenacity 1 FedEx has changed the way we do business, allowing established firms to expand their services throughout the world and helping smaller companies to look and act like corporate giants, making overnight connections with global markets. Its founders helped to restructure the transportation industry and created a unique corporate culture that has placed FedEx among the most successful new ventures of the past 50 years. Fortune magazine has described FedEx as one of the top ten business triumphs of the 1970s and lists the firm as one of the Top 10 Most Admired Companies in America and the world; one of 100 Best Companies to Work For in America, among whic...
