. >> former xerox ceo ursula burns the first black female ceo of a fortune 500 company reflects on her life and career on our other interview program. here's a portion of that conversation . >> i literally have had access to looking at the best companies out there. in ways that were real and from the time i graduated college, working on real stuff like you solved it, you suspected it, it's interesting. this is a career, this is the career. look what we're dealing with, we're dealing with the need for more sustainable solutions to everything in the world. we build tall buildings as the population gets towards the building billion people, we need more ways to get nutrition, we need to solve the water problem, we need to figure out a way to get from here to there faster on a plane and more sustainably. and how many things to that described? all of them areengineering problems . are engineering, that's what engineering is. we're information about the deeds and how do we have a supply chain. it's amazing to me that we literally still have a system that doesn't highlight this and say this is

. >> former xerox ceo ursula burns the first black female ceo of a fortune 500 company reflected on herlife and career on our author interview program "after words." here's a portion of that conversation. >> i literally have had access to look at the best companies out there. in ways that were real, from the time i graduated in college, working on real stuff like you perfected it, really interesting. this this is a career, this e career. you think of what we're dealing with, we are dealing with the need for more systemic solution to everything in the world. we fly, we build taller buildings as a population gets towards 8 billion people. we need more sustainable ways to get nutrition food. we need to solve the water problem. we need to figure out a way to get from here to there faster, right, on the plant and more sustainably. all these things that i describe, all of them are engineering problems. not even holding our ingenuity. they are engineers. that's why engineers are currently working a gifted information about disease and how to have supply chain that dash -- this all engineering.

. >> now on booktv's "after words" program, former xerox ceo ursula burns, the first black female ceo of a fortune 500 company, shares her insights into american business and the corporate world. she's interviewed by amazon senior vice president alicia boler davis. >> host: i am so excited to have this opportunity and to talk to did it about "where you are is not who you are." while we have never met i have followed you for many, many years and i've been incredibly inspired by your journey so i'm just was excited to talk to you trejo i am t happy to be here ad happy to help. >> host: okay. let's go ahead and get started. in the process you say it was truly remarkable -- [inaudible] which suggests you are a reluctant author. what convinced you to write your story?

>> now on booktv's "after words" program, former xerox ceo ursula burns, the first black female ceo of a fortune 500 company, shares her insights into american business and the corporate world. she's interviewed by amazon senior vice president alicia boler davis. >> host: i am so excited to have this opportunity and to talk to did it about "where you are is not who you are." while we have never met i have followed you for many, many years and i've been incredibly inspired by your journey so i'm just was excited to talk to you trejo i am t happy to be here ad happy to help. >> host: okay. let's go ahead and get started. in the process you say it was truly remarkable -- [inaudible] which suggests you are a reluctant author. what convinced you to write your story? >> guest: it was at the urging of so many people and at the end of the day it was my husband, vernon jordan, my nieces who said go ahead and do it. as ie was -- let me clarify that two things, right? you live your life a day at a time. get up in the morning and do something.o you do work, sometimes it spectacular, a child is bor

tonight we hear from chief executives, starting with the former xerox ceo, ursula burns, the first black ceo to lead a fortune 500 company, sharing her thoughts about american business and the world in her memoir, where you are is not who you are. after that, charles koch and brian hooks use their book, believe in people, to examine how to tackle economic and social challenges in the u.s. and abroad and later, whole foods market ceo john mackey writes about his role as a leader and his approach to business in the book conscious leadership. watch book tv, tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. >> sunday, the c-span series, january 6, views from the house, continues. three more members of congress share stories about what they saw, heard, and experienced that day, including hakeem jeffries. >> we didn't really have the highest degree of information. particularly being on the house floor, we didn't really get to see the images and of the real-time footage of the ongoing assault on the capital. however, once we arrived at the secure location we were able to get a locate -- and unde