Team Oriented - Mark Zuckerberg

Team oriented means that a group of people organized to work together and leader will concern all member and willing to receive all the suggest.

Facebook founder is the one example of the entrepreneurs who had this characteristic. Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder and CEO for the social-networking website Facebook and he also known as the one of the world's youngest billionaires.

He was born on May 14 in year 1984 in the White Plains, New York. While Mark Zuckerberg was studying at the Harvard University, he with his friends that are Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin to work on an idea for a social networking website. Zuckerberg and his team friends created a site called Facebook out from Harvard University's dormitory rooms. They created a site that allowed users that can simply to create their own profiles, upload their own photos and communicate with other users.

Zuckerberg always said that build a good team on teamwork. “One definition that I have for a good team is a group of people that makes better decisions as a whole than would individually make as a sum of the parts.” He adding that “when building a team you want to think about the dynamics so that way you can maintain this property that the team makes better decisions as a group than any individual would.”

Zuckerberg had learn a lot about choosing good people to work for him. He hires people based from what they have shown an initiative to do on their own work. When Facebook is being praised, he will remind his team members to keep in mind that they are not as good as people say they are. All need to find the equilibrium. Facebook knows how valuable the right people are.

A lot of company always encourages their own workers to form a team around projects that they are fully passion. It is because the Facebook founder that had clearly understand that a great work comes out of doing what you had adore. This approach not only ensure that employees give their best to the project, but it also provides opportunities for career growth.

A successful entrepreneur should always partner with people that complement your skills.  Mark Zuckerberg with his team setup their first office in year 2004, during that time he had turned down major offers from some corporations which interested in buying his project. Zuckerberg explained that the reason he did not sell his company because of he was not interested in money, but motivated by his passion to produce an open information flow for people with his social network. With the suggestion of Apple Inc.’s founder, Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg put together into a management team that focused on building Facebook into a high quality business.