Author Note This paper compares and contrasts the styles used by Anne Mulcahy, chair and CEO of Xerox, and Marilyn Carlson Nelson of Carlson Companies. Both woman use an empowering version of the authentic leader persona. Anne Mulcahy worked with in Xerox, but was not a high ranking person within the company when she was placed as CEO she was forced to make some very tough decisions and to trust some of the people who she knew didn’t like her our that she was in her current position in an effort to save Xerox from going under. While Marilyn Carlson Nelson wasn’t allowed to work in her father’s business, when she was finally allowed to work in the business she had to work harder and face the constant downplay of her own father, who never …show more content…
I care about building a good team to lead the company.” Anne Mulcahy (Perry, pg. 332) This sums up the idea of what an authentic leader needs to do and how they are able to get results. Like any style of leadership the authentic leader will only work in certain circumstances and while it can be used in part, it may not be the goto for certain areas of interest, though being authentic and real is a major part of most successful leadership styles.
Anne Mulcahy become the CEO of Xerox after working for the company for twenty-five years in different positions, including management positions, but never anything as high-up as where most CEO’s would be picked from. Mulcahy took over a company in deep financial trouble, she didn’t have a lot of financial experience, but she did find several financial advisors in the company she could trust and used their knowledge to not only make decisions, but to learn what it meant to do different aspects of the job from the financial side of things.
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People knew her from her time with the company, some didn’t like her but they did love the company and what it stood for and were willing to put aside their believes in order to the greater good for the company. Mulcahy also was able to gain the respect of many in and outside the company by be willing to go out on service and sales calls and talk to people and more importantly listen to people and what they needed. What they needed to get their job done easier or better, what clients needed and wanted in their products, and what was wrong with how things were done, no matter how difficult that might have been to