Postcards

Facebook's Sandberg, on the move again

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is going on the Disney (DIS) board. Smart move for her. And smart move for Disney CEO Bob Iger and his fellow directors. 

Sandberg, 40, is super-smart and supremely connected, having worked her way from Harvard to the World Bank to the U.S. Treasury--where she worked for then-Secretary Larry Summers--to Google (GOOG), where she was the top-ranked woman exec. She moved to Facebook early last year. And MORE

Happy holidays!

I'm on vacation until after the holidays. You may hear from me occasionally between now and then. (I'm born to communicate, after all, and sometimes can't resist.)

But we all need time to catch up on family and life and other reading, so cheers to doing all that. Have a good holiday, and we'll reconvene in January!

Gallery of Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs

Check out the gallery of Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, published on Fortune.com and CNNMoney.com today.

Here on Postcards, we've been sharing stories and videos of the 10 women-run start-ups that we honored in this new program, a partnership between Fortune and American Express (AXP). Small-business innovators like these women are key to economic recovery in the U.S. Fortune chose these 10 not only for their achievement so far MORE

Fixing health care...in the supermarket

by Jessica Shambora

Here's a familiar scenario: You have a sore throat or an earache. It could be just a virus, but you want to get it checked out to make sure. Good luck getting in to see your regular doctor right away.

Typically your best option is an urgent care clinic or the emergency room, where you could wait hours to be seen, in a room filled with other sick people. MORE

Think of yourself as a media company

The average person has eight daily sources of news.

The average person goes to 87 different websites in a month.

And 90% of people on the web arrive at sites not through the front door, but rather through a search engine.

So says Richard Edelman, the PR honcho who runs Edelman. Here's his take on the implications of this multiple-news-sourced world we're in: "We tell our clients, 'You have to be everywhere. You MORE

Sol Price, in Sam Walton's memory

"I guess I've stolen--I actually prefer the word 'borrowed'-- as many ideas from Sol Price as from anybody else in the business."

--Wal-Mart (WMT) founder Sam Walton about Sol Price, who started Fed-Mart and Price Club and launched a whole new style of U.S. retailing--club stores. Price, who sold Price Club to Costco (COST) in 1993, died this week at age 93.

Made in America, Sam Walton's memoir, sits here on my MORE

A solar start-up that saves energy--and cash

Lynn Jurich was flying from Hong Kong to Shanghai when a flight attendant told passengers to "look outside at the clear skies." What Jurich saw disturbed her greatly: a blanket of gray smog. "It kind of hit me right then and there that this is a real issue. This is our Earth," she says, adding that she decided that it's "my responsibility as a business person to try to solve MORE

Power Point: Mobile Internet races ahead

"The mobile Internet is ramping faster than desktop Internet did, and we believe more users may connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within five years."

- from the mega-Morgan Stanley (MS) tech report, released this morning. The 424-page analysis declares that the mobile Internet cycle, the fifth tech cycle in 50 years, is just beginning--and winners in each cycle often create more market capitalization than in the MORE

Entrepreneurs who never let you see 'em sweat

by Patricia Sellers

New-product innovation tends to be 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

Here's that 1% that led to the creation of a hot little company called Sheex: One afternoon in the summer of 2007, Susan Walvius, then the head women's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, was at practice and wearing a pair of over-sized, super-soft, performance-fabric shorts. "I'd love to have bedsheets made out of this stuff," Walvius MORE

Power Point: Treat your boss like a child

"The top four tips to keeping your office from being a corporate playpen are best described by the acronym C.A.L.M.: communicate, anticipate, laugh and manage up."

- from "10 ways to manage bad bosses" by Lynn Taylor of CareerBuilder.com. Under stress, we revert to childlike ways. That's Taylor's theory, at least. And while this guide purports to advise on handling bad bosses, it's actually helpful for anybody who's dealing with workplace MORE