Anne Mulcahy was head of HR before becoming CEO, and Ursula Burns comes from an engineering background – two very different career paths. They seem to offer very different approaches to leading a company; how do you communicate this shift in attitude?
I think we’re in a fortunate position, in that Ursula Burns had been working side by side with Anne Mulcahy for several years, so this leadership change was a well planned succession and therefore didn’t surprise anybody. I’d actually say their leadership styles are not terribly different, and certainly they both grew up in the company, if you will, and share the same amount of passion and commitment for the company and for the industry that we’re in. It was an incredibly smooth transition because it had been mapped out pretty strategically and was therefore well accepted by Xerox people.
