Postcards
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Pelosi on Pelosi: "Who said she could run?"
by Patricia Sellers
Shock and awe was the reaction to Friday's tweet from @SpeakerPelosi: "Driven by the urgency of creating jobs & protecting #hcr, #wsr, Social Security & Medicare, I am running for Dem Leader."
Nancy Pelosi's bid to be minority leader was unexpected since the protocol is for a Speaker of the House, when the other party wins the majority, to leave the job and even Congress altogether, live with the MORE
Scott Olster, editor - Nov 8, 2010 2:18 PM ET -
Trouble at the top: My own private car crisis
Guest Post by Cindy DiPietrantonio, Chief Operations Officer, Jones Apparel Group
You can only imagine how I was feeling last week when I came home from the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. Inspired. Empowered. After three days in Washington, D.C., where we heard from Hillary Clinton, CEOs like Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo (PEP) and Carol Bartz of Yahoo (YHOO), Warren Buffett (BRKA), and even the President of the United States, I MORE
Scott Olster, editor - Oct 12, 2010 12:42 PM ET -
The biggest emerging market: Women
By Patricia Sellers
Yesterday, Fortune wrapped up its Most Powerful Women Summit -- the three-day event that I'm lucky enough to chair -- with Senator Olympia Snowe in the early morning and Hillary Clinton and Avon CEO Andrea Jung just before noon. Warren Buffett (BRKA), our honorary Most Powerful Guy participant, was sitting next to me watching the show from the front row. Yesterday I shared with you some choice lines MORE
Scott Olster, editor - Oct 7, 2010 2:39 PM ET -
Warren Buffett's wisdom for Powerful Women
By Patricia Sellers
It's hard to believe Warren Buffett. A month ago, the guy turned 80 years old. Last week he was in China with his billionaire pals Bill Gates and Charlie Munger. Last Thursday, he flew home to Omaha, slept a little -- even though his internal time clock never went out of whack, he says. Since Monday, he's been with us in Washington at the Fortune Most Powerful MORE
Scott Olster, editor - Oct 6, 2010 3:21 PM ET -
Most Powerful Women gather in Washington
By Patricia Sellers
The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit began with a bang last evening. Writer/director Nora Ephron interviewed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi before an audience of more than 400 women leaders and a few good men.
Warren Buffett (BRKA) and Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein were at my dinner table. Before dinner I chatted on stage with the two winners of this year's Golman Sachs-Fortune Global Women Leaders MORE
Scott Olster, editor - Oct 5, 2010 12:28 PM ET -
Katie Couric's global cancer campaign
By Patricia Sellers
A lot of dazzling stats came out of the Global Forum -- the Fortune/Time/CNN's confab that was held these past few days in Cape Town, South Africa. Africa's GDP growth rate is double what it was in the '80s and '90s. That healthy growth is well-balanced -- two-thirds of it comes from outside the resource sector. Meanwhile, consumer buying power is rising steadily: Africa has more middle class MORE
Scott Olster, editor - Jun 29, 2010 1:30 PM ET
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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