Harriet Rubin
Biography
Harriet Rubin
It's foolish to try to imagine the future when you can just create it.
From the start, Harriet Rubin has clearly lived according to the credo quoted immediately above. She was educated at Rutgers University and Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she held a fellowship in poetry. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and a number of women's magazines. In 1989 she founded Currency, a Doubleday imprint devoted to bringing new disciplines and perspectives to business leadership.
When asked if she considered herself a princessa, Rubin responded, "On good days I'm two thirds of the way there. And yet I often find myself falling back on the same old command and control mentality of Machiavelli just to score a win. But, of course, a quick and desperate win isn't a big win or a lasting win. It takes a lot of practice to become a princessa in the Machiavella school. And [yet] that's the only power that's effective."
Harriet Rubin
