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More About This Title FedEx Delivers: How the World's Leading Shipping Company Keeps Innovating and Outperforming the Competition
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Using firsthand accounts from top leaders at FedEx, FedEx Delivers explains how the company became an international powerhouse and one of the most trusted global brands by using leadership practices that tapped into the creativity and commitment of its employees.
Both a compelling business story and a prescription for business success, FedEx Delivers presents a model to show how these practices created and sustained an innovation culture. Readers will learn how to apply this model to their organizations for developing a culture of innovation that evolves with the times and offers fresh solutions to new challenges.
Innovative thinking and disciplined execution are what made FedEx a market leader, and they can help any business in any industry do the same. Each chapter covers a different aspect of innovation with real-life stories that highlight its effectiveness, and offers valuable ideas that lead managers through the process of implementing those practices.
By breaking innovation down to its three simplest steps-generation, acceptance, and implementation of ideas-and offering proven leadership practices that really work, FedEx Delivers offers unique insight and invaluable advice on building an organization that can adapt to any challenge and meet any goal in today's highly competitive global economy.
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For the past three years, he has been advising executives on how to encourage employee creativity and commitment to build a culture of innovation and performance.
His life experiences in two rich cultures, East and West, and his broad educational background have prepared him to meld ideas from engineering, business, and psychology to develop comprehensive Leading for Innovation models. He completed his undergraduate work in mechanical engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India. Following that, he enrolled at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois, where he received his master of science degree in industrial engineering. After graduating, he joined RCA Records in Indianapolis, Indiana. While in Indianapolis, he did graduate work in business at Butler University. After moving to Memphis to join FedEx, he received a master of science degree in counseling from the University of Memphis.
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Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Innovating and Outperforming the Competition.
Chapter 2. FedEx’s Innovation Journey.
Chapter 3. Why Organizations Do Not Innovate.
Chapter 4. The Five Dimensions of an Innovation and Performance Culture.
Chapter 5. Engage Employees in the Enterprise.
Chapter 6. Expect and Help Employees to Continually Grow.
Chapter 7. Create a Secure Environment for Expression and Acceptance of Creative Ideas.
Chapter 8. Encourage Collaborative Development of Creative Ideas.
Chapter 9. Tap Employees’ Commitment.
Conclusion: Continuing to Lead the Way.
Bibliography.
Index.
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"The book provides a blueprint for building and sustaining an innovation culture that engages every employee." (Supply Management, 8th September 2005)
