Recently someone asked me: “Elaine, what is your leadership style?” My response: “which one of the 100 frameworks out there are you referring to?” People studying leadership appear to be irresistibly drawn to classifying humanity into categories. Following are a few leadership style frameworks that I have seen in recent … Read More
From FORTUNE The gender imbalance in STEM fields is extreme. According to a 2010 AAUW report, boys and girls take math and science courses in roughly equal numbers in elementary, middle, and high school, however far fewer women than men pursue these fields in college. According to the National Science Foundation, 29% … Read More
A few months ago, I was interviewed by a group of entrepreneurs from Mexico about my thoughts on innovation. Here are some key discussion points that came up in our conversation. What is innovation? When people use the word “innovation”, most of the time they are thinking about scientific or … Read More
How young is too young to start a startup? The answer is that there’s no such thing as being too young to start a company. Just look at Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, who started his first company, LinkExchange, at 23 and sold it to Microsoft for $265 million … Read More