Postcards

Are girls afraid of money? The answer is...

by Patricia Sellers

Monday's Postcard--detailing an experiment in which female undergrads revealed themselves to be practically allergic to $20 bills placed randomly in a classroom--drew a flood of comments and spirited debate about women and money.

Men, for the most part, said women do fear money. "Why the fear?" asked a Miami reader, Michael D. " "IMHO, it is learned behavior. Girls are bought things, boys are given opportunities to own them."

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Are girls afraid of money?

While visiting a friend's daughter at Georgetown University earlier this month, I got lured into meeting with a group of 15 undergrads. The session was great fun and illuminating. These were bright young women whose ambitions ranged, they told me, from cleaning up the global environmental to achieving world peace to building Fortune 500 companies.

Not one shrinking violets here.

The weekly convener of these students is Susan Wilson, CEO of The MORE

Egypt uprising: An ex-CIA official's ground view

Former CIA deputy intelligence director Jami Miscik offers her firsthand account of the unrest in the streets of Egypt and explains why we're entering a new era of uncertainty and instability throughout the region.

Jami Miscik, president of Kissinger Associates in New York, happened to be in Cairo last week when Egypt's uprising began. She was traveling with a group of policy and business people on a trip sponsored by the MORE

Tips for bosses in The King's Speech

by Patricia Sellers

Of three movies that I saw this weekend (a record cine-immersion for me), True Grit was disappointing, The Fighter was thrilling, and The King's Speech was inspiring -- my favorite of the bunch.

The King's Speech is about King George VI, Queen Elizabeth's father, and his determination to cure his paralyzing stammer at a moment when England is at the brink of war and in desperate need of inspiration. MORE

Facebook COO Sandberg on making it to the top

by Patricia Sellers

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote one of the most-read Guest Posts ever on Postcards. "Don't Leave Before You Leave" ranks second in popularity to a post written by my 93-year-old Uncle Walter Stoiber, "The Great Depression, as I remember."

Yesterday at TEDWomen, a gathering in Washington, D.C., Sandberg expounded on the theme of her Guest Post: helping women understand what they need to do to reach the top. This MORE

Doing Both, Part 2: A Simple Plan for a Better Life

Cisco Systems (CSCO) SVP Inder Sidhu wrote on Postcards yesterday about preparing meticulously and improvising enthusiastically--"doing both," as he says, to achieve a career goal. This strategy has carried him far, ever since he was a 15-year-old boy growing up in India. Against all odds and by force of will, Sidhu was chosen to attend the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Here, in Part 2 of his Guest Post, describes MORE

Doing both: A simple plan for a better life

We all try to do our jobs and have a life. At the same time. Inder Sidhu, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operations at Cisco Systems (CSCO), has unusual and interesting perspective on the balancing act. This Guest Post is an adapted excerpt from his recently released book, Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit & Drives Tomorrow's Growth. In the book, Sidhu urges leaders MORE

Today's "Mancession" will change everything

Last week, two former CEOs who once topped Fortune's Most Powerful Women list won hotly contested California primaries. Carly Fiorina, ex-Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) now battles Democrat Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat, while Meg Whitman, who built eBay (EBAY), faces off against Jerry Brown for a chance to rebuild the teetering Golden State. Fiorina's and Whitman's wins signify the Year of the Woman, as many say, but the rise of MORE

Career counseling goes global in Silicon Valley

Guest Post by Katherine Kelly Lutton, Principal and Global Head of Litigation, Fish & Richardson PC

At last week's Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Washington, I found myself sandwiched between CNN National Political Correspondent Jessica Yellin and Jane Roberts, former litigator and law firm leader and wife of Chief Justice John Roberts. Jessica and Jane, meanwhile, were sitting between two mentees from Haiti—two courageous women among 33 who are part of MORE

How to hold a crowd: Expert advice

I've been in Washington, D.C., welcoming Fortune-U.S. State Department mentees from around the world -- rising-star women leaders who will shadow U.S. participants of the Fortune MPWomen Summit from companies such as General Electric (GE), Wal-Mart (WMT), American Express (AXP), Google (GOOG), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Exxon-Mobil (XOM).

Tonight, they and more than 100 women leaders will be with us for a MPWomen dinner that will also include U.S. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, MORE