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THE LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES OF

SHERYL SANDBERG

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LEADERSHIP ROLES:TIMELINE

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Illustration: Walter Newton

LEAVING HER OPTIONS OPEN

“I always tell people if you try to connect the dots of your career, if you mess it up you’re going to wind up on a very limited path. The reason I don’t have a plan is because if I have a plan I’m limited to today’s options.”- Sandberg

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NETWORKING

Sheryl Sandberg holds“Women in Silicon Valley”events where she invitesdozens of women from allfields to chat and listen togreat orators. Some of themare: Geena Davis, Bille JeanKing, Rupert Murdoch, MegWhitman and senator KirstenGilibrand.

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DECISION MAKING“It was this overt gesture, like, ‘O.K.,let your guard down. I’m not going tohole up with Mark. I’m going to try tohave a relationship with you guys.’”said Chris Cox, Facebook’s VP.“I got around the room and askpeople, what do you think?”Sandberg told the NY Times aboutwelcoming debate on revenue andadvertising.The year she started workingFacebook agreed to rely onadvertising. By 2010, the companywas making billions.

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INSISTENCE

When Sandberg was working inWorld Bank then chief economistLarry Summers-- who was alsoher old Harvard Professor– askedher a question on Russia’seconomy. Instead of heading tothe library Sandberg calledRichard Pipes, a leading historianon Russian Revolution andHarvard Professor. “She engagedhim for 1 hour and took detailednotes.”– Summers told to NYTimes.

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INTERACTION SKILLS

“Sandberg is known to pull peopleaside and tell them exactly what isexpected of them.”– Facebook’s VPof engineering Mike Schroepfer.

Her social skills have also helpedFacebook to land coveted talent.For example she called Microsoft’sCarolyn Everson from her car, fromher home and from vacation inMexico. Everson is now head ofsales at Facebook.

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HONEST SPEAKER“She’ll say not what you want to herebut what will help you the most, evenif it means you’ll be upset at her, She’swilling to take risk, incur pain, in theinterest of helping other people”–Sheryl’s sister Michelle told Vogue.

The characteristic is what attractedMark Zucherberg first. “it wasimmediately clear from the crispnessof her answers and the intensity shehad what she talked that she want thekind of a person who could do this”–Mark told NY Times.

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NEVER AFRAID OF SHOWING EMOTIONS

“I’ve cried at work”- Sandberg toldBusinessweek. “I’ve cried to Mark. Hewas great. He was like, ‘do you want ahug? Are you O.K.?’”

Her Facebook colleagues say they likeher “deftness with the subtle form ofpersuasion known as soft power.”

“I can say very simply I have never seenanyone with her combination ofinfectious, enthusiastic spirit combinedwith extraordinary intelligence.”–Facebook Board member Jim Bayertold Businessweek.

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INSPIRING

“Let the barriers you face,-- andthere will be barriers– be externalnot internal. I promise that you willnever know what you are capable ofunless you try.”- Commencementspeech at Barnard College.

“They could really see themselves inher, rather than what you usually seeat commencements, which is twenty-two-year-olds looking at sixty-two-year-olds but not making anyconnection.” Barnard PresidentDebora Spar told the New Yorker.

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In future there will be no

female leaders, there will just

be leaders.

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