https://builtin.com/corporate-innovation/xerox-ursula-burns
Regardless of opinion on Ursula, this makes for an interesting read, from UB memoir.
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Wish she'd save us all from a near death experience and stop popping up with her blabber.
What in the F did I just read?
Complete nut case. Probably believes she invented Xerography.
- who made millions the easy way, with her mouth and race
Delusional bi--h
Taking a word from almost every one of her communiques, she is full of "Headwinds"
UB had no regard for the working class of Xerox.She had a definite chip on her shoulder..Very mean and dispassionate. Obama even gave her the boot!
This lady is looney tunes. LOONEY TUNES.
Can’t believe she wrote this book.If you attended her quarterly communication meetings she could barely make sense.
Thought process was disjointed. It was
laughable and yet disheartening that she was the CEO of this once great company.
There are plenty of folks who are blind to facts and reality nowadays, who will eat it up without question
I can't believe the book has 30 reviews sofar and they are mostly 5 star reviews.
Either the book is full of BS and the readers believe it or the reviews are fake.
- M.G. Go to amazon and listen to the book excerpt. She is doing her own voiceover. She stumbles reading "her own words"!! As a sidebar, I agree that she is a smart, hardworking engineer who succeeded under difficult circumstances, however, the Peter Principle is in great effect. It should not be racist, ageist nor sexist to say she was unqualified for the role she played. If her tenure was instead handled by a 60 year-old, white man, we would be saying the exact same negatives about her time as a CEO.
The mere mention of this woman’s name makes one’s blood boil. Totally
incompetent. She cost thousands of good hard working people their jobs.
The company got burnt bad, by burns! Useless individual and not even half the leader, nor held nearly the same corporate and commercial acumen of Anne. She fails to mention she then mismanaged xerox so badly by refusing to focus any time in its legacy business, whilst misunderstanding the plethora of business services that she was forced to spin off the Xerox Services business (former ACS) into a new failing, separately traded company, called: Conduent ticker: CDNT. Some nerve to purport to have saved this old icon, you accelerated its demise and the xeroids never forget how uninspiring, cavalier and out of touch you were, no matter the headlines!
Talk about revisionist history. I wish they would have plucked a random anyone from the circus to lead the company, the results would have been better. First order of business : ‘You have $6.3B to spend’ . I’ll spend it all on a business with 100,000 employees, with little to no competitive moat, entirely defund the $15B business I inherited, strengthen and grow the market share of my competition, and pour all those resources into growing this business I know nothing about. I’ll double down on that strategy as I continue to watch the market share of my core business shrink, while at the same time the acquired company spirals into disarray and chaos. The result of all this is the destruction of two businesses. Looking back on it, she wouldn’t have changed a thing. The fruits of all the destruction of capital, was a $45M check to leave before there was nothing left to save.
Thanks Ursula, you were the greatest leader the corporate world ever knew!
OMG, what about how we lost well over 1/2 our value during her CEO years? Or allowed a corporate raider take over? Or all the thousands of jobs she cost?
Legend in her own mind.
Boots on, good with the shovel I must admit