Mark Zuckerberg's Strategy for the Mobile First Company

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Zuckerberg told the company all hands that they were going to be a mobile first company. He did it incredibly well, but then you know what happened next day? Nothing. People still came in with their desk cops screen shots because that's what they knew how to build. So he said no more meetings unless your mobile screen shots first. And just by making that shift, he made the shift in the company. But it meant retraining a lot of engineers.

In just 6 years, Facebook grew to 2 billion users and 14,000 employees. How? Well, first, they hired COO Sheryl Sandberg. And she knew that to lead a fast-changing organization, you have to be as skilled at breaking plans as you are at making them. Great scale leaders know how to pivot, because every day there are new competitors, new threats, new opportunities. Sandberg shares the practical, tactical on-the-ground leadership lessons she learned while scaling at Google and Meta.

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