9780062879301
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she's conquered being Black and a woman. In 2009, when she was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Xerox Corporation, Ursula Burns shattered the glass ceiling and made headlines. But the media missed the real story, she insists. "It should have been 'how did this happen? How did Xerox Corporation produce the first African American woman CEO?' Not this spectacular story titled, "Oh, my God, a Black woman making it." In this smart, no-nonsense book, part memoir and part cultural critique, Burns writes movingly about her journey from tenement housing on Manhattan's Lower East Side to the highest echelons of the corporate world. Candid and outspoken, Ursula offers a remarkable look inside the c-suites of corporate America through the eyes of a Black woman-someone who puts humanity over greed and justice over power. Ursula demonstrates that, no matter your circumstances, hard work, grit and a bit of help along the way can change your life-and the world.
  • Publisher: Amistad
  • Publication date: 07/06/2022
  • ISBN: 9780062879301
  • Page extent: 240
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 203 mm x 135 mm
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