Business Leader

Business Leader

Business Leader

Introduction

One of my most favorite quotations in life is by Thomas Edison, who said, "Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration". As a person, I believe achieving success is one of the motivational factors that can make you do wonders. I believe success only comes from sweat and tears of hard work and experience. My inspiration comes from one of the youngest billionaires in the world that made his idea come to life with allot of hard work and dedication. Mark Zuckerberg is the owner ad co-founder of facebook.com.

Discussion

As an individual he is a fascinating person. Although he appears to lack even the basic people skills, he has created the wonder of www.facebook.com for inter-personal communication that has made him become the youngest billionaire in the world. For ages there has been books and journals written about the leaderships skills, but none of these studies have been able to produce the ideal leader, otherwise all the leaders would have been the same. The process of leadership is to influence the followers and make them achieve the organizational goals. The leadership skills are an important aspect of a successful leader. The effective behavior and usage of his skills to motivate the followers can determine the fate of the organization. For Mark Zukerberg leadership is all about staying focus and reacting rapidly to the dynamic environment to cater the needs of the industry and people. He does not act like a dictator and appreciate to take and listen to the opinion of others.

His primary qualities as a leader are of being an “analyzer” and being persistent and focused. These qualities were highly reflected when he created and launched a social network from his room at the dorm. He has shown high interest in the computer programming skills and those are his core competence. As a leader he has always been goal-oriented and non-threatening. He is classified as a “promoter”, due to his highly creative, insightful and imaginative nature. He was willing to settle for less when he decided to drop out of Harvard, to achieve his goals of using his creative vision and turning that into a successful reality. His decision to become an entrepreneur and to drop out of Harvard did not seem to be logical at that time, but he proved everyone wrong and made his name in the history book as the youngest billionaire. The 2010 version of vanity Affair listed Mark Zukerberg on the top of the list of “Most influential personalities of the Information Age”.

Zuckerberg listed his interest on Facebook- “openness, making things, breaking things, information flow, revolutions, minimalism, , eliminating desire for all that really doesn't matter.”

His best qualities is that he has always remain focused on the goals he wanted to achieve, which other claimed as impossible. He has made up a team of highly visionary and qualified people that had the same approach and provided them with flexibility at workplace to utilize their creativity and ...