4 Leadership Styles to Master. When it comes to leadership it doesn't matter if you manage a company with 500 employees or one where you are the only employee.
Either environment will disprove the myth that leaders should stick to just one leadership style that they have perfected. In a dynamic setting several styles will be necessary and the ability to adapt is key. There's a lot to learn from each leadership style and when to use it. Here's the four that basic styles: Directive: One of the oldest styles and frequently described as autocratic. When we are highly stressed and up against tight deadlines we frequently act a little out of character. Context: A new employee has just started their first day. So adapting our approach to consider the context and individual we are working with is important in developing and leading a staff. Letter to shareholders from Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook was not originally created to be a company.
It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected. We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do the things we do. I will try to outline our approach in this letter. At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information.
We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television – by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. Today, our society has reached another tipping point. There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. We hope to strengthen how people relate to each other. Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society.
The Hacker Way. Is "Command and Collaborate" the New Leadership Model? - Herminia Ibarra. By Herminia Ibarra | 3:02 PM February 3, 2012 The theme at Davos this year was “The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models.”
One of the models up for discussion was leadership. Panels with titles like “Leading Under Pressure” and “New Leadership Models from China” abounded. While speaking at a private dinner hosted by PwC on the topic of leadership and values in a volatile world, the questions put to me were, “What leadership traits will be paramount in the future?” And “What are the new expectations the public has for business leaders?” On reflection, it struck me that the conversation this year was very different than in years past. On the opening morning at Davos, I attended a session entitled, “The New Context for Leadership.” A similar idea was advanced at the Women Leader’s dinner on Friday night. Since the 2008 economic crisis, two very different “rhetorics” about leadership have coexisted.
Now it seems that we have settled on a solution — not “either/or,” but “yes/and.” Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg opens up. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities. You sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs, employment history, why you are peeved right now with the gummy-bear selection at Rite Aid or bullish about prospects for peace in the Middle East. Some of the information can be seen only by your friends; some is available to friends of friends; some is available to anyone.
Facebook’s privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways. According to his Facebook profile, Zuckerberg has three sisters (Randi, Donna, and Arielle), all of whom he’s friends with. Zuckerberg may seem like an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing.