CEO Series: Ursula Burns on Leading with Authenticity at Xerox
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HBR IdeaCast
URSULA BURNS: It was to present Ursula Burns and the world that I lived in, in ordinary human terms. If you play your life back, if people play your life back in idealized terms, right, once you succeeded, they believe or suspect that you must have been this superhuman person who didn’t make mistakes, who always said the right things, who etc., etc., etc. I think it’s also a great time for African Americans and African American women really have, because one of the things that we have to do as an African American woman is that we have to be able, we have this thing called grit.