From the pinnacles of power by Fortune editor at large Patricia Sellers
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September 2, 2008, 5:36 pm

Power Point: Join the right team

“I’d rather play second base on a championship team than shortstop on a team that doesn’t make it to the World Series.”

–Frank Bisignano, Chief Administrative Officer of J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM), from Jamie Dimon’s Swat Team, the cover story in the issue of new Fortune, released today. Bisignano followed Dimon from Citigroup (C), giving up the reins of a business that earned profits of $1 billion annually to take a staff role (albeit a big one). Bisignano understands that particularly in today’s brutal environment, picking the right team–rather than obsessing over rank and title–is more critical to career success than ever.

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Pattie SellersPatricia Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Can Meg Whitman Save California?", Melinda Gates ("The $100 Billion Woman"), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). And she has broken ground with insightful pieces on career management issues such as ego ("Get Over Yourself!"), and "Charisma: Do You Need It? Can You Get It?" Pattie chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. And she has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" cover package since its launch in 1998. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big consumer brand companies.
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