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Kathy Hurley Barbara Kurshan
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InnovateHERs
Business & Investing
Author Insight
A Winning Combination of Skills and Traits
If we were to put all the mindset traits in a machine and ask it to create the perfect InnovateHER, no one woman would ever represent 100 percent of each of the entrepreneurial traits and skills. InnovateHERs can have any combination of those skills and exhibit them to varying degrees of intensity. If we think about this as a recipe, these traits and skills would be the ingredients. Too much of one skill or trait might overpower the others, while too little might mean the recipe doesn’t work. When it comes to the proportions, certain combinations work better than others. It is then up to the chef to find the right balance to be successful. Needless to say, the intensity of each of these traits and skills falls on a continuum for each InnovateHER. Perhaps the tricky part to wrap our brains around is that there is no one “right” answer or formula for becoming a successful InnovateHER. However, what we did find in the research is that there are potent combinations that are especially powerful. So, what do the most effective combinations look like?
Book Excerpt
InnovateHERs
“Do you think you were born to lead, or did you build the skills along the way?” By asking our interviewees this question directly, we were able to hear from the InnovateHERs themselves as to whether they thought their entrepreneurial mindset was coded into them at a young age or was rather a learned set of skills based on environmental influences, role models, and social factors. Could we finally answer why it is that many great leaders demonstrate entrepreneurial characteristics from a young age? Or is the concept of a “born leader” actually a myth perpetuated by those with fixed mindsets?
Most researchers who have investigated this question will give you a long-winded answer to these questions, but to save you time, we’ll give you a preview of what the InnovateHERs thought: Leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset are both born and made. This aligned with both our research and the team behind the EMP’s work. Our subsequent studies reveal that the skills necessary to succeed are even more nuanced for those who are drawn to purpose-driven organizations and work. These skills go beyond just typical entrepreneurial mindset traits because it takes a special kind of leader to build new initiatives and ventures in mission-driven sectors that are traditionally under-resourced and have more red tape.
It takes an InnovateHER to get the job done.
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