Women’s Media Awards in US

The women’s media center recently gave out their 2014 awards. Included was Ursula M. Burns, chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation.  She was presented with the Carol Jenkins Visible and Powerful Media Award.

Burns is an interesting woman executive.  “As I’ve progressed in my career, I’ve come to appreciate — and really value — the other attributes that define a company’s success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.”

She talks about creating jobs and not thinking about how they can be eliminated.  \At a mst powerful women summit, she noted:  “As long as I’ve been alive discussing this, and even before, this concept of having it all — that’s not the point,” she said. Pick the places where you want to be great, focus your energies there, and then go do it, she added. Understand “you’re not going to be great at everything, and then relax.”

What is her deepest regret.  She wishes she had had more children.  (She has two).

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