The Power of Mandate: How Visionary Leaders Keep Their Organization Focused on What Matters Most by Jimmy Brown & Scott Stawski

Author:Jimmy Brown & Scott Stawski [Jimmy Brown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2019-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

Facebook and the Future

While some people protest the site’s embedded place in the culture of humanity, Zuckerberg and his staff are proud of their creation. “It shocks me that people still think this is like a trivial thing,” said Facebook engineer Adam Bosworth. “Like it’s a distraction or it’s a procrastination tool. This is so fundamentally human, to reach out and connect with people around us.”31

Facebook project manager Sam Lessin looks at the website in an even larger way. “You get at most one—if you’re incredibly lucky, two—shots, maybe in your lifetime to actually truly affect the course of a major piece of evolution, which is what I see Facebook as.”32

Maybe we should let Zuckerberg explain himself in the end, because regardless of how you feel about his character when he speaks, he is forthright and transparent. He has never been caught in a lie as it applies to his values and vision.

“I often say inside the company that my goal was never to create a company,” he said. “A lot of people misinterpret that as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means is not being, just that—it means building something that makes a really big change in the world.

“The craziest thing to me in all this is that I remember having these conversations with my friends when I was in college. We would sort of take it as an assumption that the world would get to the state where it is now. But, we figured, we’re just college kids. Why were we the people who were most qualified to do that? I mean, that’s crazy! I guess what it probably turns out is, other people didn’t care as much as we did.”33

When Time made Zuckerberg its Person of the Year, the editors explained their decision in this way:

For connecting half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them (something that has never been done before); for creating a system of exchanging information that has become both indispensable and sometimes a little scary; and finally, for changing how we all live our lives in ways that are innovative and even optimistic.34

From his early youth until the present, Mark Zuckerberg’s mind has been based in the distant future. He is constantly pushing innovation that will disrupt the status quo and usher in a better tomorrow. Through mandating these visions into reality, the people of the world are closer.

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