Asians Coming Together

Xerox Corp. is home to a lot of firsts. It invented the laser printer, the Ethernet data network and the computer mouse. Now it may become the first Fortune 500 company headed by a black woman.

Chief Executive Officer Anne Mulcahy, 54, on April 3 named Ursula Burns, 48, president with the expectation that she would move up when Mulcahy steps down, analysts including J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.’s Bill Shope wrote in notes on the appointment. Burns, who grew up in a housing project in Manhattan, also became the only inside director besides the CEO.

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From Deepthi Sid

Hi ACT friends,

ACT Wilsonville is organizing a series of seminars titled “Planning for a Successful Career” throughout this year. We are pleased to announce the first seminar in this series – “Using Xerox tools for planning your career”. This will be an interactive session with ideas and examples. We encourage you to attend this seminar and all the other seminars in this series.

“Using Xerox tools for planning your career”

An interactive seminar with examples on using PDP, Success Factors, Learning@Xerox.

presented by

Jonathan Hill, HR, Xerox Corporation

Wednesday, April 11th, 12–1pm

Building 60, Onyx room

Please see the attached flyer for additional details.

A meeting notice will be sent out soon as a reminder.

Deepthi Sid

Xerox Corporation

503.685.2315 / 8*875.2315

From Kocz Botao

Dear ACT Constituents,

You are invited to a career mentoring tele-conference meeting with our national ACT president Ashok Gupta on

4/20/07 from 12pm-1pm EST

Ashok Gupta is currently VP, Alliance Development, supporting Office & Production Groups. He joined Xerox Canada in 1975. He has held a series of information systems, financial, planning, marketing and general management assignments in Toronto, Palo Alto, Rochester, and El Segundo. Attached is his bio.

In this mentoring session, you will have opportunity to ask Ashok Gupta career related questions or simply listen to the answers to other people’s questions. Below is Ashok’s core view of career development:

• You are the owner of your “brand”. You must “market” your brand. Best products don’t necessarily win in the “market place”. “Marketing” is hard work. Your “market” extends beyond the virtual confines of Xerox Corporation.
• Xerox doesn’t “owe” you anything, but opportunities. You have to go and capture them.
• Xerox doesn’t manage your career - you do. Career planning is like a “game” with its own set of rules. These rules can be learned. There are a lot of “unwritten” rules - call them “tribal” knowledge. You are dealing with “people” - people are inherently not rational!
• To some degree career management is also like a “stock market” - rewards tend to correlate with risk (concept called risk adjusted return). You need to know your “risk tolerance”.
• You must have a “plan”. If you don’t know where you are going - you get can’t there! You must have a “goal” in mind.
• “Luck” plays a role that is greater than people generally acknowledge - but you must be ready when lady luck knocks at your door!
• The “buck stops with you”!

Registration is required. Please use this web survey tool to input your email, years of tenure and organization. Dial-in information will follow.

http://xww.survey.world.xerox.com/controller.asp?surveycode=JZXHPS.

Regards,

Botao

From Pratima Rao

Dear ACT Members & Friends,

The Wilsonville ACT Board invites you to attend its monthly planning meetings. These are the same monthly meetings as held in the past and are primarily used for interested individuals to network as well as for Board members to plan and organize events. Please bring your lunch and great ideas.

Meeting information for professional development and community outreach events will be sent separately as and when they are planned.

You will be receiving two meetings notices as we alternate between Bldg. 60 & 63. This meeting notice is for the Bldg. 63 meetings. The full schedule is as follows:

2/12 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
3/12 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
4/9 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
5/14 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
6/11 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
7/9 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
8/13 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
9/10 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
10/8 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
11/12 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
12/10 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.

Thank you,
Pratima
President
Wilsonville ACT

Link to Luncheon Flyer

March 2, 2007 at Sea Empress Restaurant

Link to Trivia Questions/Keys at the Luncheon

Lunar New Year Trivia (with emphasis on Chinese Traditions)

Link to the Photo at the event click here

Flyer and Quiz put together by: Annie, Cindy and Tuan