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Power Point: Combine can-do and must-do
October 13, 2008: 7:58 PM ET"It's a can-do spirit with a must-do responsibility that together generate great results."
- PepsiCo (PEP) chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit earlier this month. Nooyi is No. 1 on Fortune's 2008 Most Powerful Women list. PepsiCo reports earnings Tuesday morning.
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Power Point: Focus on what will move the lever
"Gamble on what's going to move the lever. Pick one or two things [to focus on] that will make an impact."
-- DeLisa Alexander, SVP People and Brand, Red Hat (RHT), at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in north San Diego last week. Alexander spoke on a panel about how to manage and sustain high growth with Carolyn Albanese, Director of Customer Experience at Annin & Co.; Michele Szynal, VP MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Oct 6, 2008 12:40 AM ETPosted in: Annie Maxwell, Annin & Co., callaway, Carolyn Albanese, consumer goods, Delisa Alexander, Direct Relief International, ELY, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, Golf, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Michele Szynal, Most Powerful Women Summit, MPWomen Summit, Postcards, Power Point, Red Hat, RHT, technology -
Buffett and more at Fortune's MPWomen Summit
Greetings from Southern California! We're here for Fortune's 10th annual Most Powerful Women Summit which, even with all that turmoil across the global markets, is drawing the heaviest hitters in business, starting with Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein.
The world's greatest investor and the Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO will be at our opening dinner tonight. It's a crazy coincidence since we invited these two men (our first time inviting men) months ago. Then, last week, the MORE
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Fortune helps make a Yahoo connection
Did you hear where Joanne Bradford, Yahoo's new SVP of U.S. Revenue and Market Development, met Yahoo (YHOO) president Sue Decker for the first time? Kara Swisher says on her blog, All Things Digital, that it was "at a poker table several years ago while attending a women's executive conference run by Fortune magazine."
Hmm, I didn't know that. And I chair that Fortune confab. It's officially called the Fortune Most MORE
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Meredith Whitney and the WWE on video
Fortune's current cover story on Meredith Whitney, "The woman who called Wall Street's meltdown," is getting tons of buzz. Yesterday, I clued you in to background on Whitney, the Oppenheimer analyst who shatters many a stereotype.
Here's another type she is not: the powerful woman with househusband. We once surveyed participants of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit and found that one-third had husbands who didn't work. Not Whitney, who is wed MORE
Patricia Sellers - Aug 6, 2008 3:12 PM ETPosted in: Andy Serwer, banks, FORTUNE MPWomen, JBL, John Layfield, Meredith Whitney, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen Summit, Postcards, Wall Street, WWE, WWE Raw
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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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