LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
06.02.13
Our
Moment
HIS WEEK’S issue is
dedicated to redefining success — a theme,
as it happens, that is
also at the center of The Huffington Post women’s conference Mika
Brzezinski and I are co-hosting
next week called “The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond
Money & Power.”
In the middle of an important
debate about women, leaning in,
and taking our full place at the
table, this is a great moment for all
of us to acknowledge that the current male-dominated model of success — which equates success with
burnout, sleep deprivation, and
driving ourselves into the ground
— isn’t working for women, and
it’s not working for men, either. So,
in preparation for the conference
on June 6, we’re featuring voices of
women who understand the need
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for a third metric of success, beyond money and power, that includes our well-being, wisdom and
our ability to wonder and to make
a difference in the world.
At the conference — and on
our new HuffPost section on The
Third Metric — we’ll be starting
the conversation by asking these
questions about how to redefine
success. As Mika puts it, these are
“the questions many women are
left with when they achieve financial security, gain power or success — or all three at once: What
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