Why I Wasn't Fired at Xerox

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Why I Wasn't Fired at Xerox</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is about opportunity. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of the early pioneers of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Haloid Corporation</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (now </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Xerox Corporation</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>) to do the right thing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From 1965 to 1995 in the heydays of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Xerox Corporation</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I held many engineering positions including managing various projects and was a </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Reliability Manager </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>with the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Xerox Manufacturing and Development Program.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As you read the Preface Introduction the section My Philosophy with Engineering and each of the chapters you will gain a deeper understanding to grasp the complex issues I had to deal with. These choices were always carefully thought out to enable a manufacturing line to have less disruptions. My style was not always appreciated but I would only break the rules for the good of the company and hopefully inspire longer term harmony.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In essence I believe this was what </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Joe Wilson</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> the founder of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Xerox Corporation</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> wanted most.</span></p><p></p>