Postcards
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Power Point: Reach for long-term happiness
"If you want to be happy for an hour, take a nap. If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a week, go on a honeymoon. If you want to be happy for a year, inherit a fortune. But, if you want to be happy for a lifetime, help other people."
- Ann Moore, chairman and CEO of Time Inc. (Fortune's MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 23, 2008 6:36 PM ET -
Billie Jean King: Pressure is a privilege
The U.S. Open begins today at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. So what could be more fitting than a Guest Post on Postcards from Billie Jean King herself? It's fitting too because King, ranked No. 1 in the world five times during her legendary career, has odd and interesting connections to some of the CEOs on Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list.
This May, at a Most MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 25, 2008 2:31 PM ET -
Video from Fortune Most Powerful Women panel on leadership
Fortune hosted a MPWomen dinner in New York in May featuring a panel on leadership. The panelists included Ursula Burns, president of Xerox (XRX); Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon (AVP); and Ann Moore, CEO of Time Inc.
Click here to watch video of the leaders reflect on their experiences traveling and working abroad.
Click here to watch video of the leaders discussing what it took to get to the corner office and MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jul 17, 2008 4:20 PM ET -
Most Powerful Women reach out globally
Men think about power vertically -- and focus on rank and status and size. Women think about power horizontally -- it's largely about influence. I know I'm in trouble already. This is a stereotype, indeed. But in more than a decade of asking women leaders -- and the men they work with -- how they define power, I've discovered this to be an remarkably consistent truth. My favorite definition of MORE
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Power Point: Seize the moment
"How can you avoid all the anxiety traps that are lying in wait to prevent you from being happy? Researchers at Cornell University, when studying what people regret, found 'it's the things people fail to do that nag them to the grave.' Failure to act outnumbers other regrets two to one. Failure to "seize the moment." Even when you make the wrong choice, it only causes pain in the short MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 27, 2008 3:51 PM ET -
Lyne may land with Oprah
High-placed media-industry sources tell me that Susan Lyne has been in touch with Oprah and her folks about running OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. Lyne, who quit the CEO post at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) last week, won't comment. Nor will Oprah. But the cable startup—a joint venture of Oprah's Harpo Inc. and Discovery Communications that's due to launch in September 2009— would be a natural fit for Lyne, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 18, 2008 2:59 PM ETPosted in: Ann Moore, Bob Iger, CEOs, Desperate Housewives, Discovery Communications, Disney, FORTUNE MPWomen, Harpo, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, OPrah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Newtork, Personal Power, Postcards, Power Shift, Susan Lyne, Time Inc. -
Most Powerful Women go global
Women exercise power horizontally. I've said this often -- in speeches about leadership and at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, an annual event that I chair. This horizontal slant spurs women leaders to reach beyond the jobs they're hired to do.
Want proof? In May, 40 top female executives in the U.S. -- all participants in the Fortune Summit -- spent two and half weeks mentoring rising stars from 24 MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 12, 2008 2:16 PM ETPosted in: Andrea Jung, Ann Moore, Anne Mulcahy, Avaya, Avon, CARE USA, CEOs, Charlene Begley, Condoleezza Rice, Dina Powell, DuPont, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, FORTUNE-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Ment, Fulbright & Jaworski, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Helene Gayle, Herman Miller, ING, JWT, Karen Hughes, Kathleen Vaughan, KPMG, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Melanne Verveer, Mentoring, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Molly Ashby, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen Go Global, Nielsen, Personal Power, philanthropy, Postcards, Skadden Arps, Solera Capital, Time Inc., Ursula Burns, Vital Voices, Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, Xerox
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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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The Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership brings rising-star women from countries around the world to the U.S. for three-week mentorships with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them Ursula Burns of Xerox, Laura Lang of Time Inc., Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, and Tory Burch.
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