Cathie Black, the new chancellor of New York City schools calls herself a born saleswoman
Wednesday, November 10th 2010, 7:53 AM
Seth Wenig
Cathie Black describes herself as a born saleswoman who started off selling lemonade and later subscriptions to a Catholic magazine.Just don't call her Cathy.
Cathie Black, the future chancellor of the New York City public school system, was just 12 and a "skinny, awkward preteen with big dreams" on the south side of Chicago when she decided she "wanted to be different."
"So one day I changed the spelling of my name from 'Cathy' to 'Cathie,'" Black recounted in her secret-to-success book, "Basic Black" - adding that misspelling her new moniker was the "quickest way" for someone to lose ground in her eyes.
It's a telling insight into the hard-charging, 66-year-old business woman who's been dubbed "The First Lady of Magazines."
Black grew up in the shadow of steel mills in an insular neighborhood
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