Postcards
New Guest Post: The leader and the moment
June 30, 2008: 12:35 PM ETTo get a take on how Barack Obama plans to fix the economy, you can read my colleague Nina Easton's terrific story, as well as an interview with Obama and John McCain, in the current issue of Fortune.
For another take on Obama, you can read the new guest post, "The leader and the moment," by Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn. She wrote an insightful piece about Obama that cleverly avoids even mentioning the Presidential candidate's name.
I've come to know Nancy (who has neither worked for nor given money to the Obama campaign, by the way) through our Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit and through her writing. Whether she's assessing billion-dollar brands or entrepreneurial icons such as Oprah Winfrey or breakout Presidential candidates, she understands how power operates.
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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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