I started a couple of years after C. Peter McColough, who was after Joe Wilson who created a world class culture. I met David Kearns once at a company picnic, nice man, but he really led through the first decline. Allaire and his henchmen were financial gangsters and nearly sank the ship with their crimes, but let Thoman walk the plank with a bag of gold. Anne Mulcahy was a star, and home grown local sales rep to CEO. Her one bad decision was.. Ursula Burns. She was actually at my workplace doing roundtables the day Icahn raised the Jolly Rodger and announced his stake in the Company. She was in over her head, obviously. Her hand picked successor, Jacobsen? A used car salesman. Now your are working for a slaver pirate who answers to a pirate King in Icahn. Between them and their deck swabbers they will drink the rum, steal the gold and scuttle the scow that is XRX... Time to jump ship was 5 years ago. I did after 33 years. My wife finally did last year after 30 plus years. In 2017 I got the 33 weeks pay and benefits during salary continuance before they ki---d it. Argh!........Matey....
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Pretty close. But Anne was nepotism too.
All this story proves is that Xerox has the most useless board of directors who are responsible for its demise since they did not have the kohonas to fire any of those worthless CEO’s!