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Leadership is changing--for the better. That's one good thing that will come out of the global crisis.
On Friday I wrote about empathy as a key component of leadership--and got lots of feedback about the post. One senior executive at a Fortune 500 company called me today to say that he shared it with some community leaders in his hometown. "If you can't empathize, no one will follow you," this exec MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 13, 2009 7:02 PM ET -
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 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
Patricia Sellers - Jul 10, 2008 10:51 AM ETPosted in: Andrea Jung, Ann Moore, anne mulchahy, Avaya, Avon, award, CEOs, Charlene Begley, Dina Powell, DuPont, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, FORTUNE-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Ment, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Herman Miller, India, KPMG, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, linda dillman, management, Mentoring, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Most Powerful Women, Most Powerful Women Summit, MPWomen, MPWomen Go Global, Oprah, Personal Power, Peru, philanthropy, Postcards, Power, Time Inc., Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, Xerox, zimbabwe -
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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