Raise Your Game: From Reject To FedEx

Jul 05, 2012 • 22 Min Podcast

FedEx is a company that started from scratch before becoming one of the biggest logistic companies.

Fred Smith, the President of FedEx, has several leadership beliefs that we can learn from. The beliefs are:

Leaders must be authentic; they must be themselves
Read history books and learn from them
Enjoy doing what you are doing

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JP Conte didn't learn about finance from a textbook. He learned it via a clothing shop in midtown Manhattan, where his father's clients, Wall Street executives, would talk to him about banking, investing, and trading. His father, Pierre, fled France following the Nazi occupation and built a life as a tailor to New York's financial titans. The lessons from those clients stayed with him.

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