Postcards

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: Unedited

The uncut version of Yahoo (YAHOO) CEO Carol Bartz's first-person "Just Deal With It," which we published on Postcards last Monday, drew lots of traffic. So we're giving you an unedited version of another first-person piece that appeared in Fortune's Most Powerful Women issue (September 28). This one is by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. The most senior woman at Google (GOOG) before she joined Facebook, Sandberg is one of the MORE

Power Point: Progress comes in fits and starts

"Progress comes in fits and starts and we're going to need to grind out this recovery."

--President Obama, responding to today's dismal jobs report that showed much greater losses than expected. The reported net loss of 263,000 jobs for September was up from 201,000 in August, and the unemployment rate of 9.8% hit another 26-year high. "I've made the point that employment is often the last thing to come back after MORE

eBay exec departs seeking CEO job

by Jessica Shambora

On the heels of last week's news that Avon (AVP) president Liz Smith is leaving to pursue a CEO job outside the company, another powerful woman is departing to seek a new C-suite challenge. eBay (EBAY) announced today that Stephanie Tilenius, head of marketplaces for North America, is leaving.

Tilenius, 42, will stay on as an advisor to CEO John Donahoe for the next few months, but her position MORE

A powerful woman at P&G on the rise

by Jessica Shambora

We're toiling away on this year's Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list, due out September 10. Anything can happen up to the minute we go to press, and this news today caused us to shuffle those yet-to be-unveiled rankings: Procter & Gamble's (PG) Melanie Healey is moving up to head the company's enormous North American business, effective October 1.

No. 37 on last year's MPWomen list, Healey currently MORE

You're working too hard!

It's hard to believe this is August. Because I'm working way too hard.

You too?

Unless you're one of the growing multitude out of work--with no job at all--no doubt you are. Here's evidence of the working-too-hard trend in a new McKinsey study called "Leaders in the Crisis": Executives are working harder than ever--55 hours per week, vs. 45, on average,  before the global economic crisis began.

McKinsey also suggests that executives aren't MORE

Guest Post: How to inspire your people

by Stephen Allan, Worldwide Chairman and CEO of MediaCom

As CEO of MediaCom, it's my job to hold onto our best people and keep them happy and motivated. Today, when challenges to morale threaten around every bend, this task is harder than ever. Nonetheless, I do believe there are clear ways to keep people inspired and engaged. At MediaCom, we do this with the help of a program we call MORE

Guest Post: Bridging college to career...to CEO?

You never know who your summer intern will turn out to be. In 1980, Ursula Burns was a summer intern in mechanical engineering at Xerox (XRX). Last month, she became CEO there. In 1985, Sallie Krawcheck was a summer intern at Fortune. She later climbed to the top tier of Citigroup (C), where she served as CFO and ran a $13 billion wealth management unit. Last week, Krawcheck moved to MORE

Why CEOs should do housework

From the sublime--yesterday's post about extraordinary women spreading their power throughout the developing world--to the ridiculous.

Perhaps ridiculous, but important nonetheless...

This afternoon, I walked over to Bloomberg headquarters at 58th and Lex to hear an author, a former Goldman Sachs (GS) managing director named Sharon Meers, talk about high-achieving men and women and how to stay successful and sane and married all at the same time.

Meers co-wrote a book called Getting MORE

Global talent hunt: where pay matters most

If you can't pay your people enough (a problem for a lot of bosses these days), how do you get the best talent to come and work at your company? I posed the question to Citigroup (C) chairman Dick Parsons last week. He had a fascinating answer: Appeal to "patriotic duty," he suggested.

Of course, only a few basketcase "too big to fail" corporations -- Citi, General Motors (GM), AIG (AIG) -- MORE

Career advice from the pros

Seventy of New York's top women in media joined 160 aspiring young women for a "Mentors Walk" in Central Park this morning. It was drizzly and great. NBC Universal (GE) and Step Up Women's Network, a non-profit group all about advancing women and girls, hosted. The Mentor Walk's creator, former Oxygen Media CEO Gerry Laybourne, was there along with J. Crew (JCG) President Tracy Gardner, Bank of America (BAC) Merrill MORE