So many people were asking Esther Wojcicki the secret to raising incredibly successful daughters that she decided to write a book about it.
"So many people were asking me what I did with my daughters and what I did with my students," Wojcicki toldabout her new book —"How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results," which is set to be released on May 7."I thought, Well, if everyone really wants to know how I did it, perhaps it would be easier if I just wrote a book."
Wojcicki has a third daughter — Janet — who's a professor at the University of California at San Francisco. Besides raising such high-powered children, Wojcicki also runs Palo Alto High School's storied Media Arts Program, where she's mentored students including Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs and the actor James Franco — whoThe new biography from Steve Jobs' daughter offers more proof that Silicon Valley is like a small townWojcicki told Fortune that most of what she's learned over the years can be summed up by the acronym TRICK, which stands for: trust, respect,...
She also said that the same principles of TRICK could be applied to business leaders as well. In fact, Wojcicki said Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and other leaders known for"employee empowerment" have shown interest in her methodology. "If you treat employees the same way, if you believe in them and give them an opportunity to perform, then they believe in themselves," Wojcicki told Fortune."It is really crazy, but when someone believes in you, you're willing to take more risks and willing to be more creative.
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