by Patricia Sellers
"Oprah's Next Act," is the cover of the new issue of Fortune. Here you'll find the scoop -- the full-blown personal drama and trauma -- around OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the cable TV channel that she's three months away from launching.
Two weeks ago, in her Chicago office, Oprah told me about her deep trepidation in taking on what will be the biggest risk of her professional life. MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 30, 2010 12:58 PM ET
By Patricia Sellers
The 2010 Fortune Most Powerful Women list is out!
You can check out the entire MPWomen package here.
This includes the full ranking of 50 MPWomen in U.S. Business, our D.C. Power List and more.
PepsiCo (PEP) CEO Indra Nooyi is No. 1 on our U.S. list for the fifth year in a row. Kraft Foods' (KFT) Irene Rosenfeld is right behind her, at No. 2.
I went on CNBC's Squawk Box MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 29, 2010 12:56 PM ET
By Patricia Sellers
Building a startup can be a 24/7 assignment. Building a high-flying startup can be, well, more consuming than that.
Which is why Susan Lyne, the CEO of fast-growing online retailer Gilt Groupe, is switching jobs with Chairman Kevin Ryan.
Gilt announced the new set-up yesterday, and by the time Lyne called me at 6 p.m. to explain, she had finished a full day in her new role. "We were talking MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 28, 2010 2:30 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Entrepreneurs not only drive economic recovery but also create better ways for us to do everyday things. Howard Schultz improved the way we drink coffee. Reed Hastings enhanced our at-home movie viewing. Steve Jobs beautified computers and the ways we use them.
The 2010 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs are not necessarily building the next Starbucks (SBUX) or Netflix (NFLX) or Apple (AAPL). But who knows? Everyone can dream, and MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 27, 2010 2:04 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
What time did you get up this morning?
Not as early as the crew on NBC's Today, I bet.
Yesterday at 30 Rock, NBC Universal's (GE) headquarters, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams connected with his inner Robin Williams (he's almost as funny, though drier) and, before an audience of media writers and other television-industry watchers, queried the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe, CNBC's Squawk Box, and Today.
Matt Lauer sets his MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 24, 2010 10:01 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
I've been less than prolific on Postcards lately. Pardon the layoff--it's temporary. And it's just because I've been running around working on what is going to be, I think, Fortune's best Most Powerful Women issue yet.
The issue, our 13th since we began the act in the magazine in 1998, will hit newsstands on Monday, October 4. That's also the day we begin the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 17, 2010 6:01 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
There's a lot of deja vu in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the upcoming sequel to Wall Street, which came out in 1987.
At a Fortune-hosted screening last night in Manhattan, we revisited Gordon Gekko, who is now grayer but just as lizardy. (Michael Douglas, 23 years later, is at his most slithery.)
Greed is still good, Gekko tells us, "but now it's legal." Free after eight years in prison, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 8, 2010 1:45 PM ET
Cisco Systems (CSCO) SVP Inder Sidhu wrote on Postcards yesterday about preparing meticulously and improvising enthusiastically--"doing both," as he says, to achieve a career goal. This strategy has carried him far, ever since he was a 15-year-old boy growing up in India. Against all odds and by force of will, Sidhu was chosen to attend the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Here, in Part 2 of his Guest Post, describes MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 2, 2010 10:58 AM ET
Photo credit: www.doingboth.com
We all try to do our jobs and have a life. At the same time. Inder Sidhu, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operations at Cisco Systems (CSCO), has unusual and interesting perspective on the balancing act. This Guest Post is an adapted excerpt from his recently released book, Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit & Drives Tomorrow's Growth. In the book, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 1, 2010 11:04 AM 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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