Where you are is not who you are : a memoir / Ursula M. Burns
データ種別 | 図書 |
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版 | First edition |
出版者 | New York, NY : Amistad |
出版年 | 2021 |
本文言語 | 英語 |
大きさ | pages cm |
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一般注記 | Summary: ""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 j |
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著者標目 | *Burns, Ursula, 1958- author |
件 名 | LCSH:Burns, Ursula, 1958- LCSH:Chief executive officers -- United States -- Biography 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:African American women chief executive officers -- United States -- Biography 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Xerox Corporation -- Biography 全ての件名で検索 |
分 類 | LCC:HD9802.3.U62 DC23:338.7/6816092 DC23:B DC23:338.76816092 |
書誌ID | 0000405257 |
ISBN | 9780062879295 |
NCID | BC04634950 |