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By Richard Feloni – When Xerox’s executive team met in 2014 to discuss the proposed sale of its information-technology-outsourcing (ITO) business to the French company Atos, everyone expressed agreement that it was the financially savvy decision, CEO Ursula Burns told journalist Adam Bryant at The New York Times New Work Summit on Tuesday.
“But you’d walk out and I’d have more people trying to kill this thing than you can imagine, without discussing it out loud,” Burns said.
It was another instance of “terminal niceness,” the disingenuous politeness that Burns vowed to rid Xerox of when she became its CEO in 2009.
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