Question

What leadership traits did Mark Zuckerberg display in his Congressional testimony?

Answer 1

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer.He is the co-founder of FACEBOOK and he is currently the chairman and CEO of that organization.He started facebook when he was in the Hardvard University with his college roommates and fellow harvard students.First it was given limited access and later it expanded rapidly and become the big giant in the social media center.Now facebook reached every part of the world and it has millions of registration accross the world.Mark become one of the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world.He was awarded with "Person of the year in 2016".He was ranked 10th on Forbeslist of the most poerfull people.

Zuckerberg Congressional Testimony : In recent congress testimony regarding the privacy concerns of Facebookis crucial regarding the use of 2 billion user of the platform.The testimony emphasized mainly on the present privacy policies,transperancy of data monetizing and establising the rules and regulations of the social media.

The testimonydirectly pointed out the concerns that requires immediate attention.Media want this issues to be addres by the top level management for not maintaining the data security.Media questioned the higher management for not ufeeling responsible for commiting these kind of erorrs.

As the news spread in the media accross the world about privacy issues than Mark address and provided the testimonys in front of the media.Zuckeberg admitted his mistakes along with an apology publicly.He feels he is responsible for what has done in the organization,he doesnot to blame anyone in the organization as being a leader he should not point soem one for this issue.which demonstrates weak position of being a leader.

It is necessary that you realise and admit the mistakes,that does not show you are weak as an human being everyone will commit mistakes you have to learn from the misutaked and should not commit in future.

He said its ok to admit that you don't know about something and you don't have any idea of the issue.Being in a responsible position you should take responsible for what has doen in the organization.It depicts that you should know about your company to its deepest roots as much as possible.

It is neccessary to bond with your team members so that you can know the details in depth what is going in the organization both formally and unformally.Internal interaction are more important in the organization to know what is happening in the organization and are you ware of it or not.

There are so many things that are demonstarted by Mr.Berg in the testimony and addressed the congress and admits and accepted the mistake.When he was asked about the Facebook's businedd model,about the control that individual user has over their control, and the intensity of information used by facebook,Zuckerberg didnt give any distinct answer and dismissed from addressing them.