Leadership Contents

Running Head: Organization Behavior
Leadership

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 2
Background................................................................................................................ 2
Leadership style and Theory...................................................................................... 3
Challenges Faced....................................................................................................... 4
Suggestion to be more effective in leadership...........................................................5
Learning from Mark Zuckerberg................................................................................. 5
Conclusion.................................................................................................................. 5
Introduction
Leadership in an organization refers to the ability of a person or an organization to make sound
decisions for an individual and the organization as a whole for the greater good. An effective

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leader has the ability to take responsibility for every decision that he makes and also influence
others in decision making. A leader is known by the team he leads, and every single person in the
team along with his leader works towards achieving a common goal (Jones and Tynan, 2016).
In this essay, the major discussion will be based on one of the global leaders “Mark Zuckerberg”
who is the co-founder of Facebook. The main reason for selecting Mark Zuckerberg is his vision
and the ability to reach out to every people across the globe. He displays a transformational
leadership attitude due to his aggressiveness and the ability to encourage people. The essay will
also highlight the difficulties faced by him during initial days of his career which were related to
funding and investment to make his social media platform reach across the globe. At the later
stage of his life, after getting popular he had to deal with criticism of invading the privacy of its
users.
Background
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the co-founder and the CEO of one of the largest social media
platform called Facebook and was recently recognized as the youngest billionaires of the world.
He was born on 14th May, 1984 in a city named White Plains in New York. He graduated from
Exeter in the year 2002 and later on was enrolled into Harvard University. Mark Zuckerberg’s
father, Edward Zuckerberg was a dental practitioner and his mother, Karen was a psychiatrist.
Zuckerberg developed interest in computers at a very young age of his life (Hoffmann, Proferes
and Zimmer, 2018).
While still in his school going days, he developed a music software called Synapse which
attracted the interest of companies like Microsoft and AOL in buying the software and hiring
him. Zuckerberg declined the offer and later on after the completion of his sophomore year, he
dropped out of the college and invested his full time in developing Facebook. Zuckerberg’s
extraordinary talent and his vision made him stand out from the people with the same skill set
which made him famous as the go-to developer in the campus. His idea of connecting people
across the globe through a common platform was appreciated by the masses. His net worth was
estimated to be 6,980 crores USD in 2019. According to Forbes list, he was ranked 10th on
World’s most powerful people in December 2019 (Menzel, 2015).