Winning ( Chapter 19 ) Work – Life Balance - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of facebook

 

In this chapter, Jack Welch indicates that your career and your family life are both important values in your life time. A stable income which can help you to build up your personal family, you can support your family members with stable income such as houses, household expenses, tax and insurance etc. On the other hand, you need to spend time with you family members and friends. It is a chance for you to relax and share your love towards your family. Then you can sufficient energy to due with your career on working days.

In the reality, your boss’s decision will be the competitiveness of the company. Usually, they won’t care about your personal life and they would believe that work – life balance is your personal problem to solve. In fact, everyone manage work - life balance with their own type. It is the way to manage the time and sorting through priorities between work and home. Jack Welch shares 3 best practices in this chapter.

1)      Keep your head in whatever game you are not.

2)      Have the mettle to say no to requests and demands outside your chosen work life balance plan.

3)      Make sure your work life balance plan doesn’t leave you out.

Before, I explain the 3 practices in detail. Let me introduce the Chief Operating Officer of facebook, Sheryl Sandberg. She is married to David Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, and has two children. She is named to the board of Walt Disney Company and she also joins the board of Directors of Starbucks. She placed 16th on Forbes' list of the 50 most powerful women in business in recent rankings. And she has a five-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter. A well educated woman and a working mom who drinks coffee.

In Dec 2010, she has a speech which is talking about “Why we have too few women leaders?”. Most of her friends at her same age would tend to stay at home with their children. Traditionally, men tend to earn much month than women. Besides, women need to do the house work 3 times more than men. As a result, women would like to stay at home with their children rather than chasing their career. She suggests 3 practices.

      Sit at the table: She explains that women systematically underestimate their abilites. You should own your own success which is the first practise from Jack Welch. If you are at work, keep your head in the work. If you are at home or play, keep your mind only there.

      Make your partner a real partner: She explains that you should separate the household work load and taking care of children with equal amount between men and women. Traditonaly, parents would like to put more effort on boys rather than girls. She points out that office work and household work load are the same important duty for all parents. Parents should share the work load with the same gender. Jack Welch indicates that if you find some work load which can pass to your lower level in order to join your family activitates. Please do so and say no to your senior level with that office work. He reminds that family and office are both important in your life.

      Don’t leave before you leave: She explains that if a woman would like to raise a child. Please stay in your field and keep moving forward. You can raise a child with your career at the same time. Once you are pregant, please don’t leave your job at once, make your decisions with your child and your career. Jack Welchs indicates that there are so many people are proceeding their work – life balance plan for their family members or officers in the office. They don’t gain any happyiness in the whole plan. If you cannot gain any fun in the plan, you won’t sustain it. You should make sure your work – life balance plan fulfills your dreams and passions. You should consider yourself, family members and officers in your plan.

      Sheryl Sandberg belives that if everyone can full fill her practices, leaders can be equal amount of gender which can build a better world. Jack Welch wishes all the empolyees can make an arrangement for each other to work out work – life balance. You can gain better experience and obersevation in your life. Two great persons’ point of view about work – life balance are very similar to each other. You should start to think about it.

Facebook COO: Working Moms Need Help from Working Dads

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders



Winning (Chapter 11) Strategy - facebook email from Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg

So many enterprises would like to develop the latest strategy for their portfolio, investment etc. In this chapter, I will discuss how to implement the strategy in process. Three main initial steps are the key principles which are:

1)      Come up with a big aha for your business, a smart, realistic, relatively fast way to gain sustainable competitive advantages.

2)      Put the right people in the right jobs to drive the big aha forward.

3)      Relentlessly seek out the best practices to achieve your big aha, whether inside or out, adapt them, and continually improve them.

According to the first chapter of Art of War, it is the chapter of laying plans which is similar to this chapter. Today, I pick up the Facebook  email account and I will introduce 2 persons in this chapter, the CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and the COO of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg. Mark Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social network Facebook. Sheryl Sandberg is the COO of Facebook, she used to be vice president of global online sales and operations at Google. She used to be in Google for 6 years until 2008.

On 15/11/10, Facebook introduces a modern messaging system. The new service incorporates chat, SMS and email functions to allow people to share however they want to share according to Facebook. The new firm is named as Titan and its message tool is broadcasted as Gmail killer. Mark claims that it is a convergent modern messaging system. The users can handle messages seamlessly across all the ways to communicate within a single inbox. This messaging service blends online chat, text messages and other real-time conversation tools with traditional email ( Microsoft’s Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Gmail ). Facebook is applying its social networking strategy to prioritize messages from friends and family. The Facebook users won’t need to check all their email accounts. They can simply check 1 Facebook account and broadcast the message within an inbox click. This action can be incorporate more instant message on email messages and instant test messages on mobile platform. Thus it is more personalized and customized message service against the traditional email platform. With such a large user base, 500 millions Facebook users, the free personal facebook.com email account is a threaten signal towards Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.

The internet war depends on the user’s spending time. Google currently owns this honor but Facebook has proven that its addictive service can hold people’s attention for long period of them. Currently, Gmail is Google’s greatest social asset and it is the main hub of communication and social activity in Google universe. Mark finds out the competitive advantage against Google which is the Facebook fans page. People would like to share the instant message among their friends whom they know. Sheryl Sandberg introduces that email is a very slow message tool. Fans pages can be a powerful tool to find the friends whom they know and whom they don’t know in terms of internet adverting and marketing. Obviously, it is extremely valuable.

Jack Welch simplifies the strategy is to find out the right aha and set the direction, put the right people in place and work crazy to execute better than every one else, finding best practices and improving them everyday. To be honest, Mark Zuckerberg finds out instant conversation and social network will obsolete the traditional email service and marketing advertising. All instant conversation can apply in mobile platform. As web 3.0 is approaching, Mark seeks this demand in the future. He hires a very great person Sheryl Sandberg as the COO of Facebook to operate this strategy. Mark is concentrating on the program for web 3.0 everyday. He is a very good model for this chapter.

The social network

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at Nielsen Consumer 360

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO