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Ireally believe we live best when we walk side by side with our colleagues. Andto achieve this, you’re gonna have to do the opposite of what I’m doing rightnow. You are gonna have to not just talk but really listen. And you have to goone step further, which is not just listen but find a way to get people toactually tell you the truth. Thereis no such thing as complete control. Nothing. No one has complete control inany situation. People that are leading organizations in some ways have least.Because not only do they have to control what they do, they have to help persuadeeveryone else what they do. But, if you’re able to take responsibility. I’m notlate because of the traffic; I’m late because I didn’t leave early enough toaccount for the fact there is traffic. The project didn’t get finished notbecause my partner didn’t do it, my colleague didn’t do his part. The projectdidn’t get finished because I didn’t set up a team where my colleague want todo his part. When you take responsibility, and you take full responsibility,that is the most empowering thing and you can do it at any stage. You have todo it when you’re raising money if you’re an entrepreneur; you have to do it ifyou’re trying to persuade people to work with you, you have to do it at allstages. Oneof the things I talked about in my book is the importance of measuring resultsnot on face time. If you as a company measure face time, you will be rewardedwith face time. If you’re talking about people who are working really hardrather than people who are getting great results, people who works really hardwill not focus on results. In my job at Facebook, Mark and I check to run thecompany really focus on results. We have one employee actually for a while whofamously was one of our highest performers, but just ain’t like in the officevery much at all. And we were publicly applaud him. You know, no one see him ina week, but look what’s happening. And we were publicly saying his results wereamazing if he feels like doing it, you know, sit in his basement, go ahead. Notevery company can do that; different companies have different constraints, butmany more companies can do this. Thebest kind of leadership starts by finding something you really believe in.Facebook exists because Mark Zuckerburg believed that the world will be abetter place if we all use technology to share our connects. He believed thatenough to drop out of school at 19, and he believed it enough to hang on to thevision and hold on to it, even people tried to take it away from him overyears. I joined Facebook along with so many others because I too believe eventhat vision. And now the most important part of my job is to keep myself andeveryone else in Facebook maniacally focus on what we are trying to do day inand day out. So, start. Start by finding a company you believe in, a productyou love, something that cause you really, really care about. Because not onlywhen you inspire yourself will you be inspired, but you in turn will inspireothers. And that’s the most critical part of great leadership. Allorganizations have some form of hierarchy, people in organizations, if you aredoing a manager, will do what you tell them to do, even in facebook at least atsome of the time. But great leaders don’t want compliance, they don’t wantpeople to follow orders. Great leaders want real excitement, genuineensutheasm, real commitment. Great leaders don’t just win the minds of theirteam, they win their hearts. Great leaders don’t just issue commands, they heedvoices of those around them. Careersare not ladders, the days are long gone, but jungle gyms. Don’t just move upand down; don’t just look up. Look backwards, sideways, around the corners.Your careers and your life will have starts, stops, zigs and zags. Don’t stressout of the white space, the path you contra, because there is in life both the surprisesand the opportunities. （责任编辑：晨鸿） |
