Let's break from the news -- following yesterday's Postcard on Huffington Post CEO Betsy Morgan getting the boot and Monday's Postcard about Citigroup (C) chairman Dick Parson's idea for luring fresh talent to the sick bank giant. (Appeal to "patriotic duty," he proposes!)
Too many strange doings and way too much going on, frankly, during what is supposed to be a slowdown into summer. (Btw, when will Manhattan get warmer?) Today, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 17, 2009 6:37 PM ET
"The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what make it so powerful."
-- Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor and Internet expert, in Tuesday's New York Times. Zittrain explained how the social network was able to evade censorship by the Iranian government because there are so many ways for posts to originate. (There are hundreds of tools that can post to Twitter, like Tweetdeck and Twitpic). "It is MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 16, 2009 9:18 PM ET
Betsy Morgan is out as CEO of HuffingtonPost.com -- and her firing came as a surprise to her, Morgan told me when we connected by phone late this afternoon.
"Bummer." That was the first word she uttered in our conversation. Morgan says she's not bitter, however. After all, what a ride Arianna's web venture has been these past 20 months. Morgan joined in October 2007 -- and I remember it well MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 16, 2009 6:11 PM ET
"It's not just about talent, it's about character."
-- Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson, who became the most winning coach in NBA history Sunday night when his team beat the Orlando Magic 99-86 in Game 5 of the Championship series.
Jackson, who now has 10 NBA Championships, was talking about starting point guard Derek Fisher, who's been knocked for being too old, too short, and too slow. But Fisher makes 'em MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 15, 2009 6:23 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
How do you get top talent to work for a Fortune 500 company that's one-third owned by the federal government, bound by onerous rules on pay and benefits, and so out of favor with investors that its stock won't budge above $3.50?
If you're Citigroup (C) chairman Dick Parsons, who is trying to help embattled CEO Vikram Pandit lure talent to the bank giant's management and board, you pitch MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 15, 2009 3:10 PM ET
"People like to see showdowns."
--Usain Bolt, Jamaican track and field star, as he was being honored with the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award in Toronto this week. Bolt predicts that American sprinter Tyson Gay's return to competition will make for a lively season, "He knows what he has to do to beat me, or compete with me."
Bolt's words make us think of another contest that's heating up: the MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 12, 2009 9:37 PM ET
The sun's coming out in New York City after a week of seemingly endless rain. This was also a whirlwind week of interesting encounters.
On Tuesday, I had lunch, unexpectedly, with Walt Disney (DIS) CEO Bob Iger. We were both at the New York Stock Exchange for Jeff Sonnenfeld's Yale CEO Summit, and Iger was getting the "Legend in Leadership Award." The Summit was off the record (as was the lunch), MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 12, 2009 6:10 PM ET
Seventy of New York's top women in media joined 160 aspiring young women for a "Mentors Walk" in Central Park this morning. It was drizzly and great. NBC Universal (GE) and Step Up Women's Network, a non-profit group all about advancing women and girls, hosted. The Mentor Walk's creator, former Oxygen Media CEO Gerry Laybourne, was there along with J. Crew (JCG) President Tracy Gardner, Bank of America (BAC) Merrill MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 11, 2009 3:15 PM ET
"I saw that those who were really effective made use of not just a "to-do" list but a "stop-doing" list. "
-- Jim Collins, management guru and best-selling author, in an interview with Time regarding his recently published fourth book, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In. Doing research for the book, Collins says he found that people who are successful in today's world are clear about MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 10, 2009 5:51 PM ET
by Jessica Shambora
The drama continues apace in banking. Yesterday we shared a CNN interview with Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, as he struggles to hang on, while Pattie last Friday gave her take on the fall of Bank of America's (BAC) chief risk officer, Amy Brinkley -- a veteran of Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.
Another top woman in banking -- one of the few still standing -- swung by our MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 10, 2009 4:12 PM ET
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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