Ursula Burns
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
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The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Ursula Burns, shares 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 has conquered. She credits her success to her poor single Panamanian mother, Olga Racquel Burns, who set no limits on what her children could achieve. Ursula's 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. She 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.
Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
She also shares her 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 shes 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 masters 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 Im 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 Manhattans 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 child-care 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 Womens movements to pursue engineer.
She also shares her 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 shes 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 masters 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 Im 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 Manhattans 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 child-care 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 Womens movements to pursue engineer.
She also shares her 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 shes 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 masters 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 Im 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 Manhattans 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 child-care 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 Womens movements to pursue engineer.
She also shares her 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 shes 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 masters 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 Im 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.”
Weight: 392g
Dimension: 161 x 236 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780062879295
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