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Transformational Leadership- Mark Zuckerberg
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It all begins with a conviction, a vision and an enduring will power. A conviction to
innovate; a vision to actualize great heights and an enduring will power to motivate, guide
and move ahead through adversaries comprise a Great Leader.
Mark Zuckerberg – A milestone setter
One such dynamic leader who has made a huge difference in the social media industry at a
very tender age of 19 is Mark Zuckerberg, founder -owner of the supersonic social
networking site, Facebook. At the age of 19, a dropout from Harvard University, Mark along
with his friends, in a dormitory room cultivated this idea and launched Facebook in
California. Today the net income of Facebook is US$ 2.94 Billion (2014).
Under the chairmanship of Mark, Facebook in the last year has acquired WhatsApp,
Instagram, Oculus VR and PrivateCore. Today, at the age of 31, he is the second youngest
self made billionaire of the world (2012 news article).
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The following report discusses Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership style and behaviour, in depth
exploration on transformational leadership theory and Mark Zuckerberg as a dynamic
Transformational Leader.
The leader in Mark Zuckerberg
The questions which poses here are – how did Mark achieve this status? How well did he
organize his resources especially human resource? Finally, how did he incorporate such
brilliance and innovation at such inexperienced age? It is not an easy task to manage 10,082
(Mar 2015) employees scattered in various crucial departments.
The answer to above questions construes in only two words – ‘Exuberant Leadership’. Mark
definitely is a visionary who has managed efficiently to transform his visions and his ideas
into the minds of his co members and staffs and has achieved to bring out the best in them.
This makes Mark a great Transformational Leader. He has, in the last 11 years inspired
people to do remarkable things, has transformed them to do things- the type of things his
followers would not have dreamt to do on their own. Who would have thought today in the
highest grossers lists will be Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram?
Confidence, Courageous, Empowering – Life with Zuckerberg
Facebook Employee Andrew Bosworth posted 4 points on his blog about “life working with
Zuck”. The four points are: 1. Zuck expects Debate; 2. Zuck experiences things contextually;
3. Zuck isn’t Sentimental; 4. Zuck pushes people.
In 2010, Zuckerberg was ranked as one of the 100 most influential and wealthiest
personalities by the Times Magazine. His style of leadership is described as aggressive and
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