Genentech president jumps to a new life

• Finding flexibility in your career

  Another powerful woman called last week to tell me she's opting out. "I'm going to do what I want to do rather than what I need to do," said Julie Fasone Holder, Dow Chemical's (DOW) SVP and chief marketing, sales and reputation officer

  It's the trend lately. If you've been checking into Postcards regularly, you've read about my conversations with high-ranking women choosing the good life vs. the grind. Susan Arnold MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Apr 7, 2009 2:40 PM ET
  Posted in: boards, Brands, consumer goods, Dawn Hudson, Dow Chemical, economy, FORTUNE MPWomen, headhunters, Heidrick & Struggles, jobs, Julie Fasone Holder, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Most Powerful Women, P&G, PepsiCo, Personal Power, philanthropy, Postcards, Power Shift, Procter & Gamble, Susan Arnold

• Know yourself!

  Who are you? It's more important than ever to know the answer to this question.

  Think about it - When you're on shaky ground (aren't we all these days?), when your bosses and direct reports question your moves (admit it, they do), and when you're rethinking your life or career (you'd better be, or you're a fool), you need one core competency: Know thyself.

  A primer in this regard: a book that I MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Mar 27, 2009 12:54 PM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, Cisco, CSCO, Dawn Hudson, eBay, Jacqueline Novogratz, Jim Donald, Joe Klein, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Meg Whitman, P&G, PepsiCo, Personal Power, politics, Politics Lost, Postcards, Procter & Gamble, Ramani Ayer, SBUX, self-awareness, Starbucks, The Hartford

• Pepsi's former boss lands a new gig

  by Patricia Sellers

  Dawn Hudson spent more than a decade chasing stretch goals at PepsiCo (PEP). She headed sales and marketing at Frito-Lay, the consumer giant's snack unit. She led marketing at Pepsi-Cola North America and ascended to CEO of that $5.5 billion business.

  That job turned out to be Hudson's ceiling inside PepsiCo, where chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi has put her own stamp on the company. Hudson (who ranked as MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Mar 26, 2009 1:39 PM ET
  Posted in: boards, Brands, CEOs, Citigroup, consumer goods, Dawn Hudson, eBay, Erin Callan, FORTUNE MPWomen, headhunters, Indra Nooyi, Kraft, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Meg Whitman, Morgan Stanley, P&G, PepsiCo, Personal Power, Postcards, Power Shift, private equity, Procter & Gamble, Sallie Krawcheck, sports, Susan Arnold, Wall Street, Zoe Cruz

• Watching tennis with a champion

  On Thursday, Pattie and I had one of those "pinch yourself" moments. We were invited to the World TeamTennis suite at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows. World TeamTennis is a professional and amateur co-ed tennis league created by Billie Jean King. Translation: We we were guests of King at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

  While these circumstances alone are awe-inspiring, what made the experience truly special was MORE

  Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 5, 2008 1:19 PM ET
  Posted in: Billie Jean King, Champion, Dawn Hudson, FORTUNE MPWomen, Karen Durkin, Pepsi, Postcards, sports, Tennis, U.S. Open

• Pat Russo's not so startling fall at Alcatel-Lucent

  Pat Russo's planned resignation as CEO of telecom-equipment giant Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) isn't so surprising given her unending tide of challenges: intense industry competition, out-of-control costs, cultural clashes following the 2006 merger of the American and French companies. This simply wasn't manageable for a chief who, despite her impressive record as a turnaround champ at IBM (IBM) and then AT&T (ATT), didn't satisfy investors on either side of the Atlantic.

  Some might MORE

  Patricia Sellers - Jul 29, 2008 12:50 PM ET
  Posted in: CEOs, Dawn Hudson, Diane Greene, Erin Callan, FORTUNE MPWomen, Patricia Russo, Postcards, Wall Street, Zoe Cruz