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Anne M. Mulcahy
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 21
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Chief Executive Officer
Rockville Centre
New York
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Get face time with the customers.
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Educated and productive young people are needed to help # LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
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Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.
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Who you are, what your values are, what you stand forthey are your anchor, your north star. You won't find them in a book. You'll find them in your soul.
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The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.
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I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do.
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If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.
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You have to live the mission... love what you do.
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Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.
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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
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I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.
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I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
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Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.
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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
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What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it's really clear. It's about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If you take care of your customers and you have motivated employees, everything else follows.
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Entire families work for Xerox.
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People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.
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An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.
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Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.
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When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
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