From one of the founding executives of FedEx comes the first full inside story of how FedEx 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 and kept afloat despite incredible obstacles.
This story tells of the extreme difficulties FedEx faced in its initial tumultuous years and bested only by the hear-stopping lengths to which its leaders and employees went to, in order to save the company. The story contains examples like pilots using their personal credit cards to gas up the planes, employees deferring cashing their paychecks, and Fred Smith gambling with FedEx's last 40,000 in Vegas to win a week's worth of operational expenses. Anyone who is interested in a jaw-dropping story of struggling against impossible odds will be compelled to read this book.
