Personal and Professional development

Personal and professional
development

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is an act of motivating a group of individuals
in which constant efforts are made so that all the
employees of organization can be motivated towards
organizational goals and success. This presentation
includes description of role that leadership plays in
achieving overall success of Facebook

OVERVIEW
Facebook Inc., is one of the widespread social
networking organization which is engaged in
providing services through which mass
connectivity can be achieved at global level. This
is an American organization founded in the year
2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.

Role of Leadership in Success of Facebook
Success of Facebook all over the world requires no introduction and when success is recorded
reason behind its success needs to be identified. Effective leadership skills of Mark
Zuckerberg and his all and continuous efforts made this dream success a truth.
There are certain factors in the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg that make success of Facebook
more prominent. Some of these factors are as follows-
Innovation: Facebook is based on one of the most innovative and creative idea to
facilitate connectivity all over the world.

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Accountability: Organisational structure of Facebook Inc. make each and every employee
accountable for their act. Mark Zuckerberg in his leadership initiated this responsibility
characteristic so that each employees can be held accountable for the act done or actions made in
order to perform business activities.
Responsibility: Allocation of responsibility to employees form higher to lower level is important
feature of Mark Zuckerberg's leadership style. Allocation of responsibilities and accountability is
made in such manner that balance can be achieved and performance is done to achieve business
success.

Application of Theories of Leadership
for analyzing Mark Zuckerberg
Application of certain theories of leadership when applied to Mark Zuckerberg's leadership
style then it will help to analyse which form of leadership was prevailing in the Facebook Inc.
Leadership Styles
There are different forms of leadership styles that are prevailing in organizations and
explanation of these styles in order to analyses Facebook Inc. leadership style these are
elaborated as follows-
Autocratic Leadership: In this form of leadership style allocation of power is done in limited
manner and all the decision taking authority lies in single hand.

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Democratic Leadership: This is a
participative leadership style in which
leaders and employees are provided equal
role to take decisions in relation to
various decisions. A balance is managed
in providing role and responsibilities as
per this leadership style.

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Transformational Leadership: In this form
of leadership style, leaders encourage,
motivate and inspire all the followers to take
shape in such manner that success can be
made more certain for business organization.

Approach adopted by Mark
Zuckerberg
There are three leadership style available and Mark Zuckerberg follows transformational
leadership style as all the followers in the organisation are inspired through work performed
by leader of Facebook. Method through which this style is applied is described as follows-
 Motivating all the employees to work with efficiency so that establishment of stress free
environment can be done.
 Providing a clear vision to the employees so that effective performance can be made.
 Mark Zuckerberg is inspiring others through his work so that a team of motivated and
effective employees can be generated to meet all the requirements of Facebook Inc.

Conclusion
From the above presentation it has been concluded that leaders have a grate influence on
overall performance of business. Together with this it is analyzed that Facebook is one of the
organization that achieve huge amount of success with effective leadership. A balance
leadership which is followed by Mark Zuckerberg provides success and helps in achieving all
amount of growth and success.

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