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100 1  Burns, Ursula,|d1958-|eauthor. 
245 10 Where you are is not who you are :|ba memoir /|cUrsula M. 
       Burns. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bAmistad,|c[2021] 
300    viii, 231 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Preface -- Leave behind more than you take away -- Don't 
       let them see you sweat -- Where you are is not who you are
       -- Becoming one flesh -- Don't let the world happen to you
       -- you happen to the world -- Zig and zag -- Mentors and 
       models -- Close call -- What doesn't kill you... -- Woman 
       power -- At the helm -- Pulling back -- An end and a 
       beginning. 
520    ""I am a black woman who doesn't play golf, doesn't belong
       to or go to any club, doesn't like NASCAR, doesn't like 
       country music, and has a Science degree in engineering. I 
       speak differently, very fast, with an accent and a set of 
       vernacular that is New York City, definitely Black tilted.
       So when someone says I'm going to introduce you to the 
       next CEO of Xerox, and the candidates are lined up against
       a wall, I would be the first one voted off the island." 
       Where You Are is Not Who You Are is an engaging memoir by 
       Ursula Burns, former Chief Executive Officer of the Xerox 
       Corporation. Her appointment as the first African American
       woman to head a Fortune 500 company in 2010 drew headlines,
       which, Ms. Burns insists, missed the real story. "It 
       should have been-How did this happen? How is it possible 
       that the Xerox Corporation produced the first African 
       American woman CEO? Not this spectacular, ridiculous one 
       about, Oh, my god, a black woman making it." How was it 
       possible? Burns writes movingly about her journey from 
       growing up in tenement housing on the Lower East Side of 
       Manhattan to the highest echelon of the corporate world. 
       Her champion was her single Panamanian mother, Racquel 
       Olga Burns, who set no limits on what her children could 
       achieve. A licensed child care provider, Racquel Burns, 
       whose highest annual income was $4,200, managed to send 
       Ursula and her siblings to the local parochial school and 
       to send Ursula on to a Catholic High School where a nun 
       told her she had three choices for her future: a nun, a 
       teacher or a nurse. But Ursula wanted to make money to 
       help her mother. Taking advantage of the opportunities and
       social programs brought about by the Civil Rights and 
       Women's movements, Ursula was accepted into many colleges,
       including Yale. Instead she chose to pursue engineering at
       Brooklyn Poly Tech and then at Columbia graduate school, 
       sponsored by Xerox, where she had been a summer intern. 
       Burns writes about race. Her classmates, and later, her 
       colleagues, almost all white males, "couldn't comprehend 
       how a Black girl could be as smart, and in some cases, 
       smarter than they were. So they made a special category 
       for me. Unique. Amazing. Spectacular. That way they could 
       accept me." Burns writes about gender in the corporate 
       world. "We all start out with two arms and two legs and a 
       head, but it you're born white with two testicles and a 
       penis, you're already way ahead of the game." Burns writes
       about the current Pandemic, comparing it to the financial 
       crisis of 2007/08. "The whole economic system as we know 
       it, was literally put on stop, not hold, stop. The earlier
       crisis was difficult to be sure, but the Pandemic has 
       created financial challenges that make that time seem like
       child's play." She also discusses the fact that 60 percent
       of the jobs that exist today will be eliminated in the 
       next 10-20 years. Always on the side of the laborer, she 
       celebrates a time when CEOs lived in the communities 
       alongside their workers, while showcasing the ways 
       corporate culture is destroying the spirit of democracy. 
       Burns' 35-year career at Xerox was all about fixing things,
       from cutting millions of dollars as head of manufacturing 
       to save Xerox from bankruptcy to acquiring a $6 billion 
       business services company to give Xerox a future. She 
       worked closely with President Barack Obama as Chair of his
       Export council, traveled with him on an official trade 
       mission to Cuba and became one of his greatest admirers. 
       Candid and outspoken, this memoir takes the reader inside 
       the c-suites of corporate America, and reveals it through 
       the lens of a Black woman-someone who puts humanity over 
       greed and justice over lining the pockets of the few"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
520    Appointed the chief executive officer of the Xerox 
       Corporation in 2009, Burns was the first Black female to 
       hold the position at a Fortune 500 company. Here she 
       writes about her journey from tenement housing to the 
       highest echelons of the corporate world, crediting her 
       rise to her single mother. Burns writes about the 
       limitations she faced, as well as the challenges and 
       reality of the corporate world. The result is a remarkable
       look inside the C-suites through the eyes of someone who 
       puts humanity over greed, and justice over power. No 
       matter your circumstances, hard work and leadership can 
       change your life-- and the world. -- adapted from jacket 
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