Anne M. Mulcahy: Self-Trained Leader Who Saved a Fortune 500 Company

When Anne Mulcahy began her career at the Xerox Corporation in 1976 as a field sales representative, she never intended to ultimately become president and CEO, much less to take the helm at a time when the company faced a struggle for survival.
Ravaged by years of losses, a staggering $18 billion debt, and an SEC investigation into its accounting practices, Xerox was on the brink of collapse. Despite Xerox’s great challenges, she managed to turn the company around and return it to profitability and prominence as one of America’s best-known technology giants.
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Met this lady when I was a Global account manager at Xerox France. It was in a Starbucks in NY. She had this incredible talent to make you feel comfortable. She treated me as an equal. I was a young saleaman, she was the president, we have never met before, but she made me feel important, and an equal to her. One of my biggest lessons in my professional career.

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Was working as a Personal Banker several years back. I had the pleasure of serving Annie's late husband Joseph on several occasions. He was a please and just overall great guy! I had one interaction with Anne during my time at the bank, and like the previous commenter mentioned, she has an incredible talent to make you feel comfortable. You wouldn't have known that she was the CEO of Xerox at the time. I'm glad to see she is sharing her knowledge with others.

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Can you come save it again? It’s circling the drain.