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Power Point: Dare to be great
May 14, 2009: 8:29 PM ET"Put yourself in the path of lightning."
- Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's longtime friend and senior adviser. This is what Jarrett told young Barack and Michelle early on in their friendship -- years before she or even they imagined he might become President. Jarrett's rule -- one of her 21 rules of life -- came up tonight as I was talking with Ann Moore, Time Inc.'s CEO, at a reception we hosted for the participants of this year's Fortune/U.S. State Department Mentoring Partnership. (We have 32 rising-star women from 23 developing countries shadowing American women leaders this month.) Ann, a mentor each year, sat beside Jarrett at last week's Time 100 dinner, and says that she never did find out from her what those other 20 rules are. Hmm, can anyone tell us?
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The Palin Effect: Here to stay
Sarah Palin changed the game for women and power, and it'll never be the same again. So say a few well-known women -- Arianna Huffington, former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, White House Project president Marie Wilson, and More magazine editor in chief Lesley Jane Seymour -- who met in New York this morning for "The Spin Room: Gender, Politics and Media in the 2008 Election." The lively panel was MORE
Patricia Sellers - Nov 13, 2008 1:44 PM ETPosted in: Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, blogging, CBS, eBay, FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, FORTUNE MPWomen, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, John McCain, Katie Couric, Lesley Jane Seymour, Marie Wilson, Matt Lauer, media, Meg Whitman, More magazine, NBC Today, New York Women in Communications, politics, Postcards, Power Point, presidential race, Sarah Palin, sexism, Spin Room, Valerie Jarrett, Washington, White House Project
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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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