Postcards
Power Point: Win every day!
March 26, 2009: 7:35 PM ET"Every single day you have to win. You have to win that experiential battle every single time."
- Best Buy (BBY) CEO-to-be Brian Dunn during a recent visit to Fortune. A 24-year Best Buy vet, he was recalling the mid-90s when "Circuit City had us on the ropes. They took for granted that we were over." Dunn was in the trenches, leading a region for the electronics retailer, back then. "To me, it was never under consideration that we were over." His bosses were Dick Schulze and Brad Anderson, Best Buy's former and current CEOs. They kept telling the troops: "This is on you." Dunn says, "That expectation of personal responsibility is key."
Best Buy--which ended up driving Circuit City out of business this year--today reported a quarterly profit decline. But earnings were well above expectations, and the stock shot up 13% to $37.67. Best Buy's surprise helped drive the Dow up 175 points.
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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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