When we think about the CEO of a large company, we may be curious about the way they work, their daily routine, or if they really Managing a large company is a complex taskOne of the most important CEOs today is Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta.
To better understand his attitude at work, we can refer to the statements of Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, who deals with the CEO of Meta on a regular basis. And the truth is that in some of Mark Zuckerberg’s work attitudes we can find similarities with Steve Jobs’ way of working… could it be that great CEOs have the same secret up their sleeve?
Through the podcast The Colin and Samir Show, The head of Instagram stated categorically that “He is someone who is very focused on results”. This makes Zuckerberg “He’s always going to keep the bar very, very high. He’s always going to put a lot, a lot of pressure on you. He’s always going to have very high expectations.”This means that excellence is always desired in the ideas that are presented at your table.
This is something that Steve Jobs did. Among the secrets of Jobs’ productivity, one of them is to say “No” to practically everything that was presented to him. The founder of Apple always I wanted to seek excellence in the productsand this meant rejecting all ideas that were not good enough. And one of his legendary phrases is that “innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
In Zuckerberg’s case, it is said that even if he initially disagrees with an idea, he will go to several more meetings to ask employees their opinion on the ideaThe goal is to “test it” so that other people can realize that it is not a good idea.
Zuckerberg’s way of working forces employees, including the head of Instagram, to know how to deal with him. He explained it this way: “When you’ve been working with someone long enough, you start to anticipate what their opinion is going to be and what they care about.” The real secret is in seeking balance between both visionsyour own and that of your superior.
In addition to the Instagram boss, Facebook’s CTO pointed out that the effort Zuckerberg puts in when an employee is working on a very important project is incredible. He even compared it to the ‘Eye of Sauron’ of The Lord of the rings, since it will always be on top of you and will bring out the smallest errors that it detects.
But even Zuckerberg is always making changes to projects, even though he told them days before that he didn’t see them clearly. We also saw this in Steve Jobs who had a really active mind and did not rest even on vacation. It was so much so that some employees received up to six calls from Jobs during the holiday period. All this in order to always have the projects well controlled and outlined (although the correct thing is always to rest in the summer).
Ultimately, we see how these two innovative minds ultimately have more in common than we might think. What is clear is that They have not brought companies to the point where they are by sitting on their handsbut because of the fact that they have a lot of pressure on their teams and, above all, because they always want the highest quality in their products.