{"id":893,"date":"2024-08-10T17:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=893"},"modified":"2024-08-11T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T09:14:11","slug":"susan-wojcicki-was-the-most-level-headed-of-her-sisters-mother-said-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Susan Wojcicki was the most level-headed of her sisters, mother said earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-cy=\"article-content\">\n<p>Months before Susan Wojcicki passed away on Friday, her mother Esther Wojcicki recalled what the former YouTube CEO was like as a kid and how she raised her daughters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>\u201cSusan was the most level-headed,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/10\/business\/video\/esther-wojcicki-raise-successful-people-mothers-day-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Go to https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/10\/business\/video\/esther-wojcicki-raise-successful-people-mothers-day-digvid\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/10\/business\/video\/esther-wojcicki-raise-successful-people-mothers-day-digvid\" class=\"sc-93594058-0 fowfrQ\">Wojcicki told CNN in May<\/a>. \u201cShe was super easy to take care of, baby and child. It was like she was born being rational. And I thought she was so great that I was like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019ll have another one.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Then came Janet, whose number one goal as a kid was to beat Susan, Esther said, and then Anne.<\/p>\n<p>Janet is now a professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, and Anne is the founder and CEO of genetic testing company 23andMe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A longtime educator at Palo Alto High School and author of the 2019 book <em>How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results<\/em>, the family\u2019s matriarch said her goal as a mother was to empower her daughters and teach them that they could manage any situation they were in.<\/p>\n<p>While they didn\u2019t become student body presidents, they were still independent thinkers and leaders in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey weren\u2019t afraid to take a stand, which is what I was hoping for,\u201d she told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what the secret is to raising successful children, Esther replied that she didn\u2019t have a specific parenting style but instead was more collaborative and took her kids\u2019 opinions into account, such as what to make for dinner and how to make it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they were responsible for a lot of choice and responsible for a lot of doing,\u201d she explained. \u201cThey all have little failures, but it\u2019s OK. As a matter of fact, if you don\u2019t fail, you don\u2019t learn. The more you do for your kids, the less empowered they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Fortune<\/em> in 2019, Esther boiled down her parenting approach to the acronym TRICK, which stands for trust, respect, independence, collaboration, and kindness.<\/p>\n<p>She said executives can also learn from TRICK and pointed out that Susan\u2019s former company gives employees a sense of freedom with a policy allowing them to devote themselves to whatever they want for 20% of the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoogle turned out to be one of the most creative companies on the planet,\u201d Esther said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Read More about Susan Wojcicki:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-1de0461b-0 yuNst article\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><strong>Recommended Newsletter:<\/strong> CEO Daily provides key context for the news leaders need to know from across the world of business. 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