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Mark Zuckerberg page http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/business/mark-zuckerberg/
 * Born on** May 14, 1984
 * Studied** Computer Science and Pyschology **at** Harvard University
 * Lives in** Palo Alto, California
 * From** Dobbs Ferry, New York
 * Works at** Facebook
 * In a relationship with** Priscilla Chan

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Mark Zuckerberg is a young entrepreneur that is the founder and CEO of Facebook. He created Facebook while studying at Harvard at the age of 20. The creation led him to drop out of school after his junior year. Facebook was not Zuckerberg's first programming endeavor. While just a teenager in high school, he created a program called Synapse. This program chose songs to play for computers that were similar to recently played songs on the same computer. Many top software companies, clearly impressed by Mark's ability, contacted him in order to offer him a job. Zuckerberg turned down these offers in order to attend college. At Harvard, Zuckerberg designed a program called Coursematch. It allowed students to view which classes other students were taking. Then, Zuckerberg created a Facebook precursor Facemash which allowed viewers to vote on the looks of the students pictured on the website. Facemash led to some sanctions by the Harvard administrative board because of its offensive nature. Shortly after this incident, Mark was contacted by Divya Narendra and the Winklevoss twins (Tyler and Cameron). These young men wanted him to create a social networking site called HarvardConnection. Zuckerberg agreed to help them, but instead started work on his own site called the face book. On February 4th, 2004, Zuckerberg launched his new site thefacebook.com. Along with his room mates and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Soon many Harvard students were on Facebook and Zuckerberg began to work on expansion. Starting with Stanford University, Columbia University, and Yale University, Facebook started its huge expansion to roughly 750 million users. This amount of users leads to Facebook's estimated valuation at $66.5 billion dollars. Zuckerberg remains CEO and his shares alone are worth $13.3 billion and a net personal worth of $17.5 billion. Zuckerberg continues to expand Facebook and was name //Time Magazine// Person of the Year in 2010.

We chose Zuckerberg for our project because he is a young up and coming CEO. He leads a company that we are all consumers of (every group member has a Facebook Profile). His company is going part of our daily lives and could one day be part of every human beings day.

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__Personality__ Mark Zuckerberg’s personality is not the most normal personality you would expect to find in a CEO. Even though he is still in his late twenties, Zuckerberg has had to endure many maturing experiences. Many know his personality traits from the way he was portrayed in the movie //The Social Network,// but Zuckerberg along with others who know him very well have said that it did not portray him to the full extent. If one had to categorize Zuckerberg’s personality based on the Big 5 Traits, he would be said to have conscientiousness and openness to experience. Because of his high level on intelligence, it makes him aware of everything around him and always knowing what is physically and mentally going on. At points it might seem like Zuckerberg has attention deficit disorder, but in actuality he is taking in all of his surroundings while multi-tasking. Zuckerberg would also fall under the openness to experience category because he is drawn to new ventures and experiences. A person with this trait is said to have high levels of creativity, and Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates this quality to the fullest extent. A perfect example of this is his creation of Facebook. The amount of creativity it takes to come up with ideas to generate a social networking website of this magnitude is a very considerable amount.

If Mark Zuckerberg was to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator his type would more than likely turn out to be an INTJ. What this stands for is introversion, intuition, thinking, and judgment. Zuckerberg is a very introverted person because he does not like to share everything about his life with other people. He likes to keep many personal things to himself. His intuition is very keen and acute and this can be seen in his business strategies when dealing with Facebook. He knows when to make certain moves and how to make certain improvements when the time is needed for such things. His high IQ and levels of intelligence make the thinking type a no brainer. He was studying computer science at Harvard University and made an entirely new website while doing so. But what the thinking type deals with more is his ability to make decisions. He doesn’t sit back and think over problems or many possible solutions, but rather he jumps in and goes with the easiest solution available. And finally, the judgment part of his type shows that he does not really have too much care for how the outside world perceives him. Zuckerberg is a very proud and carefree individual and this shows throughout his entire life and professional career.

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__Motivation__ Mark Zuckerberg’s dominant approach to governing others leans more towards a task-oriented leadership style. His approach to leadership has proven to be successful as he, ultimately, did not invent social networking, but instead utilizes task-management in order to guide his employees to see a common value in perfecting it. The //Social Network// does a fantastic job of depicting this approach. During the movie Mark is persistent in motivating his friends to input their maximum effort when he first moved to Palo Alto, California in order to achieve product development goals he had set for Facebook. This is why Facebook’s greatest advantage as a whole is innovation. Facebook famously bungled the introduction of its first news feed—essentially, every post a member made on their wall was shared with their entire network. One member, Ben Parr, started a group called "Students against Facebook news feed," and its membership swelled to 750,000 users within a week. Instead of digging his heels in, Zuckerberg sent Parr an email asking for his advice on what Facebook could do better when introducing new products.

For Zuckerberg, it doesn’t just stop after getting the job done—in order to be successful you have to be innovative and keep building and improving your selling product. However, in order for this to happen, you really have to believe in your vision. In 2006, Yahoo attempted to buy Facebook for one billion dollars. At the time, CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was 22 years old, and he rejected the offer. Many felt he made a huge mistake but he turned down the offer, ultimately, because he claimed he was "here to build something for the long term." In a recent interview with Diane Sawyer, Zuckerberg was amazingly consistent, and he expanded on that same sentiment, saying, "we really just believe in what we're doing."

Naturally, Zuckerberg primarily exercises inspirational motivation to create a need for achievement. His high degree of task-oriented leadership has also raised the expectancy of effort and performance in which he seeks from his employees. The //Social Network// does a fantastic job of depicting this approach. During the movie Mark is persistent in motivating his friends to input their maximum effort when he first moved to Palo Alto, California in order to achieve product development goals he had set for Facebook. Now, for performance evaluations, employees are rated on a scale from 1 to 5, with five being the highest—no one gets a five—and if you get a 1 or a 2, you’re quickly terminated. However, leading employees in this fashion creates a common philosophy and vision for his employees.

__Values__ The most obvious instrumental value that Mark Zuckerberg posses is Intelligence. His brain operates on a very high level which is evident throughout his life from creating Synapse to attending Harvard to starting a multi billion dollar company. Along with intelligence, Mark has showed a great amount of competence in his ability to take Facebook from a dorm room to where it is today. The amount of courage and ambition possessed by Zuckerberg in order to drop out of school and take a big risk in order to pursue a dream is outstanding. The final notable instrumental value is Open-mindedness. Mark was open enough to stop school and try this idea. Most people would never be open to quitting school in order to pursue such a dream.
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Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most generous people in the world. His values include Equality, World Peace, and Happiness. Mr. Zuckerberg is part of an initiative ,started by Bill Gates that also involves billionaire Warren Buffet, to donate half of his wealth to people who may need it more than he does. For example, He donated $100 million dollars to the Newark Public School System. This notion shows how he wishes for there to be equality. Many of those children will receive a better education that may help them compete with kids around the United States for spots in colleges or scholarship money. Also part of the initiative by Mr. Gates, is the promotion of World Peace. The help of some of the most wealthy and influential people in the world couldn't hurt as far as resolving conflict. Finally, Happiness is the goal of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg wanted to satisfy people and make their lives easier. Satisfaction and an easier life sounds like a quick way to make people happier. Mark Zuckerberg has the unique position to have a profound impact on the world through his value system.
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