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| Overnight Success: Federal Express And: Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator |  | Author: Vance Trimble
Publisher: Crown
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 944947
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 342
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0517585103
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.04406573
EAN: 9780517585108
ASIN: 0517585103
Publication Date: January 4, 1993
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Condition: Ex-Library. May have library markings or stickers. Otherwise, standard used condition.
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A look at the founder of Federal Express describes how, in 1970, just back from Vietnam, Smith envisioned a streamlined fleet of airplanes that could deliver packages overnight and how he transformed that idea into a billion-dollar industry. 25,000 first printing.
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 Tired Simplifications and Dirt-Dishing January 12, 2008
"Overnight Success" will not provide readers useful ideas on how to create a very large corporation from scratch, nor how to innovate and maintain success after the initial start-up.
Read something else.
 Pass on this Book December 23, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
if you're looking for an insightful business-case history of the start of Fedex. Fred Smith and Fedex gave no assistance to Trimble, and the lack of those valuable sources show throughout the book.I inferred that this refusal of help was because of the extensive support of "Absolutely Positively Overnight!: The Story of Federal Express" by Sigafoos, and the controversial result. Bottom line: If you're interested in learning about Fedex from inception to the early 80's, I'd go for Sigafoos book (though right now it's ~$100) and ignore this one completely.
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