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As I search google for CEO and CIO, I came across someone whom looked similar to me . I came across an African American women, the first African American women CEO at that, to head a fortune 500 company. I was not aiming to writer about anyone in particular. The reason I chose Ursula Burn because she is a CEO of a fairly known company Xerox. For this paper I will review and research Ursula’s personal view on life, as well as her management style and of she "lives" their management style? Ursula had a changeling up bring. She didn’t let her home life affect her school life. Burns earned an engineering degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York and went on to earn a graduate degree from Columbia University. Believe it or not Xerox …show more content…

If you have an opinion, you should make it be known, At a meeting on work-life balance with Wayland Hicks, someone asked a question about “bringing in all these women and minorities, lowering the performance of the company.” After Wayland responded, Burns spoke up, expressing her shock that he even addressed such a question. Her outspokenness led to a back and forth with Wayland, which led to her job as an assistant to Wayland, then a senior Xerox executive. The Makers: Women Who Make America documentary. Ursula management style to me is authoritative, affiliate and participative intertwine in one. Ursula follows her own five points of power communication, culture, vision, people, and customer service. Ursula explain them, “A true leader is indispensable. You must be consistent, honest, and forceful. Successful in communication, built it upon honesty and being straightforward. Culture will help your business succeed. Strengthen the good times, have diversity, teamwork, and change the bad things. Become the culture itself. Let your employees know what they are in for. Aim for reaching back to your company’s highest success and exceeding forward. People can do just about anything when they are aligned around a common goal and objective. Think about who you are serving, your mission to them, and make the customer the center to everything.

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