Mark Zuckerberg Followership

Mark Zuckerberg has become one of America's most richest according to Forbes, his net worth sits at an astounding 56.7 billion dollars. He is the co- creator of one of the most used social media's out there. He created Facebook while he was in college in his dorm room. You might ask yourself, why is Facebook so great? Facebook allows people from all over the world to connect with friends, family, and associates. Since it's creation it has had many updates to improve the site to make it a more enjoyable experience.

When people think of individual leaders, some of the first people that comes to mind are the many great military, political, and religious leaders of the past, and/or present. Leaders are those individuals who takes charge, not with an “iron fist”, but with their knowledge, beliefs, and most importantly, patience. In the world of business, leaders are looked upon to make important decisions that can either make, or break a business, including leading individuals to a successful path. Les Brown is the world’s most renowned motivational speaker and highly-sought-after resource in business and professional circles for many Fortune 500 CEOs. Les Brown turned his passion to motivate and build people into a multi-million-dollar business that he successfully runs and manages.

Mark Zuckerberg and Patrick Soon-Shiong came from different backgrounds, and although now they have earned a spot in the Forbes Top 400 Most Successful Entrepreneurs, it seems that Mark had more than advantage that led to his success. Mark Zuckerberg is the son of dentist Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner. Zuckerberg attended private school after demonstrating great proficiency in his classes at public school, and he received numerous accomplishments in science, math, astronomy, physics, and classical studies. Mark Zuckerberg lived the life of a middle class individual, where he had access to a stable household income, a prestigious education, and an opportunity for advancement in his youth giving him the opportunity to explore different realms. Compared to minority entrepreneurs, Zuckerberg has succeed far beyond a life’s worth of work. In comparison Patrick Soon-Shiong worked in his father’s store in South Africa and had grown up learning about traditional medicine through his father. Soon-Shiong had lots of hands on experience being a

Zuckerberg strategy was doomed…because it included no systemic assault on poverty, the real enemy of achievement” (Russakoff, 2015).

After she moved to Silicon, Google came across her sight, she found the company’s mission really attractive and signed a contract and became the business- unit general manager in 2001 (during that time, Google was only three years old). Google soon grew during the time she was there and sooner or later, she got promoted as the vice president for global online sales and operations. In her position, she was responsible for managing online sales of advertising and publishing products. In other people’s eyes, her career was very successful as one of the top executives in the country. But in Sandberg’s own mind, she found her position wasn’t challenging enough, so she asked for a promotions to be the COO, but she was rejected. So she decided to change her career and seek new challenges. Mark Zuckerberg, FB’s CEO came across her life. (Auletta,

For our final leadership project, my partner and I decided to direct our main focus towards the narrative and the story of Scott Mordell. The story of his childhood and upbringing, his early career, his leadership style and role at the Young Presidents’ Organization, and his still ongoing path. Scott is not your typical CEO, he is a leader of leaders, and that is something that makes him and his leadership very distinctive and extraordinary from most.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born into a Jewish family on May 14th, 1984 in the suburbs of New York. He was the second born of four and was the only boy. Zuckerberg’s parents, Edward and Karen, did well financially. Karen was a psychiatrist and Edward was a dentist with his own Dental Practice next door to their home. Zuckerberg was already interested in programming by the time he reached elementary school and received his first computer at the age of 10. Zuckerberg’s father began teaching him Atari basic programming when he was 12 years old and Zuckerberg took that knowledge to create a messenger that he named, “ZuckNet”. This messenger connected his computer to the dental office computer and the receptionist was able to transfer a message to Edward to notify him when a patient arrived to the office. Zuckerberg admired coding on the computer and he not only developed communication tools but he also developed games from his friends’ drawings. Zuckerberg did this as a hobby but his father saw more potential and proceeded to hire David Newman, a computer tutor, who gave Zuckerberg private lessons. Zuckerberg was the stereotypical “nerd” as a child, he had a Star Wars themed bar mitzvah, he enjoyed fencing, and he programmed computers in his spare time.

According to Ben Mezrich, Mark Zuckerberg’s relationship to facebook changed his life with difficult emotional struggles throughout the process. In the book “The Accidental Billionaires: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal”, Mark Zuckerberg studied at Harvard University and went through many obstacles to reach his achievement of a social network that many people are aware of: ‘Facebook’. The key issue that occurred at this time was his emotional rollercoaster with acquaintances, inner emotions, and the relationship to his special creation. The creation of facebook changed Mark Zuckerberg in many personal ways while being attached to the creation

This paper presents a view of three prominent individuals of enterprises: Jeff Bezos of Amazon represents the large enterprise perspective. Elon Musk for a medium sized company and Dominique Ansel for a small business. A fourth leader is included, not due to his responsibility for running an enterprise, as he does not run an enterprise. He is included because leadership is about relationships and the ability to influence and gain followers. As a writer and speaker, David Foster Wallace was a great communicator.

Leadership has begun to grow in the 21st century like never before, but has been vital throughout all of history. Every business or organization is in search for people with an open mind that would be useful to lead and be successful. However, there is a continuous amount of challenges for this new generation. These challenges are due to the a variety of traits and skills necessary to strive in this era that are missing, the diversity and inclusion that has created different types of leadership styles, and the digitalization of this modern world. All of these roles come together to create the leadership challenges of today.

People who know Mark Zuckerberg shared that he was a workaholic and very dedicated to his computer and math classes and these very qualities perhaps played an important role in achieving what he was destined to become.

The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich is a non-fiction book about how computer genius Mark Zuckerburg created Facebook in his dorm room. He took the idea of a social networking site and turned it on its head with his friends. Eduardo Saverin was a junior when he met Mark at a social event, the kid with the curly hair who always wore cargo shorts, a hoodie, and Adidas flip-flops. Mark was a computer science major who lived in Eliot House. He had grown up in the upper-middle-class town of Dobbs Ferry, New York. In high school, Mark had supposedly been a master

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the company Amazon, is a stern and old-school leader. He whips Amazon into shape by utilizing an almost slave like employment group. Those close to him have been quoted saying that his drive and assertiveness come before any other leadership styles. Bezos can be compared to the football coach of the business world. Bezos primary focus is improving performance of his employees and company while leaving other important issues such as personal and customer service issues the weak link in his empire.

Zuckerburg built a social media empire and ammassed billions of dollars by getting people to waste their time. Yes, you heard me. He creates ways for you to lose all sense of time and reality, so you spend hours on Facebook.

We as the society understand that organizational leaders’ objectives are to endeavor, enthuse, endorse, and encourage new entrepreneurs while creating an unshakeable foundation in the mentor-mentee equivalent to the role of leader-follower relationship. We also need that unshakeable faith in their destiny. Regrettably, many wavering leaders do not dutifully take the role of leadership seriously and successfully of their organizations.