Organizational leadership is something that has fascinated me my entire life-learning how great leaders have inspired their teams in both good times and bad. As an intelligence officer in the United States Navy, I studied the lessons of great historical leaders such as Admirals Chester Nimitz, William Halsey, and Raymond Spruance as well as many other military and naval leaders at all levels. I have also read extensively about civilian leaders and am currently reading Dr. Condoleezza Rice's account of her journey in leadership. What I have learned has served me well during my twenty-two-year career in corporate finance at FedEx, the world's largest express transportation company