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Power Point: Be agile in uncertain times
"Right now, nothing is more important than a nimble, agile leader, who is comfortable with ambiguity and figuring it out as they go along."
--Avon (AVP) President Liz Smith, in a discussion led by Pattie Sellers at NYU today. The panel, which also included Cece Sutton, Morgan Stanley's (MS) new retail banking president, was hosted by Forte Foundation. (To view video of the dialogue, click here.)
Smith and Sutton, both on Fortune's MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 26, 2009 6:54 PM ETPosted in: Avon, AVP, banks, Cece Sutton, education, Forte Foundation, FORTUNE MPWomen, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, liz smith, management, MBA, Morgan Stanley, MS, Postcards, Power Point -
More women fall off the tracks
The ouster of Bank of America's (BAC) chief risk officer, Amy Brinkley, was inevitable, as I wrote in "Behind the shakeup at BofA" on Friday.
And as I mentioned in that piece, two years ago, Fortune featured Brinkley and five other execs in "One Step Away," about rising-star Most Powerful Women on track to be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies someday. So what's happened to the other five?
One woman made it MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 8, 2009 12:31 PM ETPosted in: Amy Brinkley, Avon, Bank of America, banks, Carrie Cox, CEOs, DuPont, Ellen Kullman, finance, Fortune Most Powerful Women, FORTUNE MPWomen, Genentech, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, linda dillman, liz smith, Morgan Stanley, P&G, Personal Power, Postcards, Power Shift, Procter & Gamble, Sue Hellmann, Susan Arnold, Wal-Mart, Zoe Cruz -
Power Point: Worry about your people
"At the end of a day the performance of a company like Kraft has everything to do with the quality of the people that we have in the key roles and so I spend most of my time worrying about whether that's the case, making sure...we have the right people in the right places, that they have the resources that they need to get the job done."
-- Kraft (KFT) CEO MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - May 5, 2009 6:57 PM ETPosted in: MPWomen, Andrea Jung, Avon, Disney, Power Point, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, CEOs, FORTUNE MPWomen, earnings, AVP, Pat Woertz, ADM, consumer goods, Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft, KFT, dis, entertainment, Anne Sweeney, mpw, archer daniels midland, Postcards -
Global mentoring program kicks off in DC
I'm on the run in Washington, following meetings at the White House yesterday and a spectacular "Most Powerful Women Evening With..." dinner that Fortune hosted on Monday night in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department. We had eight U.S. Senators with us--including our speakers, Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas--and scores of women leaders, a touch of royalty (HM Queen Noor, who is MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 29, 2009 3:25 PM ETPosted in: Andrea Jung, Ann Moore, Anne Mulcahy, Avon, Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, CEOs, Dina Powell, eBay, FORTUNE MPWomen, FORTUNE-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Ment, Hewlett-Packard, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, liz smith, Meg Whitman, Mentoring, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen Go Global, philanthropy, politics, Postcards, Queen Noor, sports illustrated, U.S. State Department, Ursula Burns, Washington, Washington D.C., Xerox -
Behind Fortune's Most Powerful Women
What makes a Fortune Most Powerful Woman?
This is a question that we get constantly, since rising-star business women (or their PR people!) wrangle to get a spot on Fortune's annual Power 50 list. And many a male CEO takes it as a badge of honor to have one or more of his direct reports in the MPWomen rankings. In just 11 years, Fortune's MPWomen list, which we release in the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 23, 2009 12:44 PM ET -
Why P&G's president quit
by Patricia Sellers
Procter & Gamble (PG) lost its president today: Susan Arnold, a 29-year veteran who drove the company's high-margin beauty business to $20 billion in sales and went on to oversee all of P&G's brands, stepped down one day after her 55th birthday.
"My dad retired at 62," Arnold said, phoning this afternoon on her way to a Walt Disney (DIS) board meeting. "Then he got really sick. You know MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 9, 2009 2:57 PM ETPosted in: A.G. Lafley, Amy Brinkley, Andrea Jung, Avon, Bank of America, banks, boards, Brands, Carrie Cox, CEOs, consumer goods, Disney, DuPont, Ellen Kullman, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, FORTUNE MPWomen, headhunters, John Mack, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, McDonald's, Morgan Stanley, Most Powerful Women, P&G, Personal Power, pharmaceuticals, Postcards, Power Shift, Procter & Gamble, Susan Arnold, Zoe Cruz -
Most Powerful Women answer Obama's call
On Friday, I left you with a promise: that I'd find something new and proactive to do to answer President Obama's call to "responsibility"--which seems to be the buzzword of his Administration.
I found my "to do" this weekend--but before I tell you what I decided on, let me share briefly what I spent yesterday working on. Carrie Welch, my onetime Fortune colleague and former Most Powerful Women Summit co-chair, and MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 2, 2009 2:10 PM ETPosted in: Accenture, American Express, Andrea Jung, Ann Moore, Avon, AVP, AXP, Beth brooke, CARE USA, Condoleezza Rice, DD, Diane Gulyas, Dina Powell, Dow, DuPont, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, Fidelity, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs/Fortune Global Women Leaders Award, GS, Helene Gayle, Kathy Murphy, KPMG, linda dillman, Mentoring, Meredith Whitney, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen Go Global, Nielson Media Research, philanthropy, Postcards, President Obama, Skadden Arps, susan whiting, Time Inc., Wal-Mart, WMT, XOM -
Goldman Sachs-Fortune Global Women Leaders Award
When chaos and crisis are in the air, it's easy to shelve programs that are about building for the long-term future. That's why I'm particularly proud that Fortune and Goldman Sachs (GS) recently partnered to create the Goldman Sachs-Fortune Global Women Leaders Award.
This annual award is a product of the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, which brings rising-star women from developing countries to the U.S. every May MORE
Patricia Sellers - Nov 10, 2008 12:35 PM ETPosted in: ADM, Andrea Jung, Ann Moore, Anne Mulcahy, Avon, CARE, CEOs, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, FORTUNE-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Ment, Gerri Elliott, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs/Fortune Global Women Leaders Award, Helene Gayle, Kathleen Vaughan, Kenya, Lloyd Blankfein, Mentoring, Pat Woertz, Personal Power, philanthropy, Postcards, Time Inc. Xerox, Wall Street, Warren Buffett, Wells Fargo -
Most Powerful Women: The list about the list!
We've spent the last three months slicing and dicing the accomplishments and career histories of the most powerful women in business -- far too many facts and figures to fit into our Most Powerful Women package in the magazine. Here are 10 intriguing facts that we couldn't find space for in print:
Youngest woman to ever appear on the list: Marissa Mayer, VP of Search and User Experience at Google (GOOG). MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 30, 2008 12:11 PM ETPosted in: MPWomen, Oprah, Andrea Jung, DuPont, Wal-Mart, Avon, Xerox, Anne Mulcahy, Ursula Burns, Lehman Brothers, Erin Callan, Zoe Cruz, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Harpo, CEO, Credit Suisse, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, CEOs, FORTUNE MPWomen, VMWare, Diane Greene, Susan Arnold, PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, Sallie Krawcheck, Google, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, Brenda Barnes, Sara Lee, LEH, CS, AVP, Marissa Mayer, TJX, Heidi Miller, Meredith Whitney, Oppenheimer, Oracle, Pepsi, Irene Rosenfeld, JPM, MPWomen list, MS, Safra Catz, Susan Chambers, Proct, Kraft, Katie Benner, VMW, KFT, PEP, SLE, DD, Ellen Kullman, Carol Meyrowitz, mp, Postcards -
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
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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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Every year Fortune and the U.S. State Department sponsor the Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, which brings rising-star women from developing countries to the U.S. to work closely with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them CEOs Andrea Jung of Avon, Ann Moore of Time Inc., and Ursula Burns of Xerox.
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