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By The Time I Stepped Down As Xerox's Ceo In 2009 - And As Chairman In January 2010 - Xerox Had Become The Vibrant, Profitable And Revitalized Company That It Still Is Today. What Made The Difference Was A Strong Turnaround Plan, Dedicated People And A Firm Commitment From Company Leaders.

I Left Xerox For The Non-profit Sector Because It Was Clear To Me That Only Public/private Partnerships Can Pull Off A Turnaround Plan At The Scale We Need To Tackle Global Poverty.

Whenever An Earthquake Or Tsunami Takes Thousands Of Innocent Lives, A Shocked World Talks Of Little Else. I'll Never Forget The Wrenching Days I Spent In Haiti Last Year For Save The Children Just Weeks After The Earthquake.

I Got A Journalism Degree. I Started Doing Journalism - I Interned At 'cosmopolitan' Magazine In The 1970s, Which Probably Wasn't The Best Place For Me, And I Spent Six Or Nine Months Freelancing. Anyway, I Wasn't That Good At It.

I Worked In Sales. It Was Definable, It Had A Quantifiable Approach To Accomplishment That Had A Great Deal Of Importance To Me. It Had A Degree Of Clarity That I Loved. And Of Course, It Was Core.