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100 1  Burns, Ursula,|eauthor. 
245 10 Where You Are Is Not Who You Are|h[electronic resource] /
       |cUrsula Burns. 
264  1 [United States] :|bAmistad,|c2021. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
300    1 online resource (240 pages) 
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520    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. "I am a black 
       woman, I do not play golf, I do not belong to or go to 
       country clubs, I do not like NASCAR, I do not listen to 
       country music, and I have a master's degree in 
       engineering. I, like a typical New Yorker, speak very fast,
       with an accent and vernacular that is definitely New York 
       City, definitely Black. So, when someone says I'm going to
       introduce you to the next CEO of Xerox, and the options 
       are lined up against a wall, I would be the first one 
       voted off the island." 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. 
       She credits her success to her poor single Panamanian 
       mother, Olga Racquel Burns, a licensed childcare provider 
       whose highest annual income was $4,400, who set no limits 
       on what her children could achieve. Ursula recounts her 
       own dedication to education and hard work, and how she 
       took advantage of the opportunities and social programs 
       created by the Civil Rights and Women's movements to 
       pursue engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York. 
       Burns writes about overcoming the barriers she faced, as 
       well as the challenges and realities of the corporate 
       world. Her classmates and colleagues, almost all white 
       males, "couldn't comprehend how a Black girl could be as 
       smart, and in some cases, smarter than they were. They 
       made a developed category for me. Unique. Amazing. 
       Spectacular. That way they could accept me." Her thirty-
       five-year career at Xerox was all about fixing things, 
       from cutting millions to save the company from bankruptcy 
       to a daring $6 billion acquisition to secure its future. 
       Ursula also worked closely with President Barack Obama as 
       a lead on his STEM initiative and Chair of his Export 
       council, where she traveled with him on an official trade 
       mission to Cuba, and became one of his greatest admirers. 
       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. She compares the impact of the 
       pandemic to the financial crisis of 2007, condemns how 
       corporate culture is destroying the spirit of democracy, 
       and worries about the workers whose lives are being 
       upended by technology. Empathetic and dedicated, 
       idealistic and pragmatic, 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. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 African American studies. 
650  0 Business. 
650  0 Leadership. 
650  0 Electronic books. 
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