Postcards
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How to be a Fortune Most Powerful Woman: Step 4
Here's the fourth and final criterion for making the Fortune Most Powerful Women List: social and cultural influence. It's certainly more difficult to measure than revenues or profits, the health of a business, or even the arc of a woman leader's career. But vast social and cultural influence is precisely why Oprah Winfrey ranks No. 8 on our list. Her company, Harpo, is privately held and nowhere near the size MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 17, 2008 12:03 PM ET -
How to be a Fortune Most Powerful Woman: Step 1
We constantly field queries from PR specialists, HR bosses, CEOs, and even wannabe Most Powerful Women, who ask: How does one make Fortune's annual MPWomen list? Throughout this week, I'll give you the lowdown about how we select women leaders for the list, now 10 years old. First of all, I should tell you that the Fortune MPWomen lists -- ranking 50 women in the U.S. and 50 women who MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 14, 2008 11:56 AM ETPosted in: Angela Braly, Anne Mulcahy, Carly Fiorina, CEOs, FORTUNE MPWomen, Indra Nooyi, Jill Barad, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Mattel, MPWomen, Oprah, PepsiCo, Postcards, Wellpoint -
Welcome to Postcards
Greetings from the pinnacle! As I launch this blog, Postcards, I'm perched on the 15th floor of the Time & Life Building in the center of Manhattan -- overlooking Rockefeller Center, to be precise. I have a sense, though, that I'm scanning the entire universe -- wanting to share with you the most fascinating, most fun, and most valuable ideas about super-achievers and other powerful people.
I have lots of ideas MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 10, 2008 8:20 PM ETPosted in: Andrea Jung, Arianna Huffington, CEOs, David Neeleman, Eddie Lampert, Fortune, FORTUNE MPWomen, Hank Paulson, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, management, Martha Stewart, Melinda Gates, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen, MPWomen Go Global, Oprah, Pattie Sellers, Personal Power, philanthropy, Postcards, Power, Power Point, Ted Turner -
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 -
Power Point: GPS system for life
"When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid. And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jun 24, 2008 3:05 PM ET
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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Every year Fortune and the U.S. State Department sponsor the Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, which brings rising-star women from developing countries to the U.S. to work closely with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them CEOs Andrea Jung of Avon, Ann Moore of Time Inc., and Ursula Burns of Xerox.
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