Influential Storytelling Lessons From Mark Zuckerberg

Esohe Igbinoba
Sep 5, 2018 · 2 min read
Influential Storytelling Lessons From Mark Zuckerberg

Recently, Facebook breached their privacy policy by sharing data of over 87 million Facebook users with Cambridge Analytica, a London, UK–based political, data analytics, advertising, and consulting firm and it raised quite a storm, especially in the US.

Facebook stock crashed, losing billions of dollars in value within days, some board directors of Facebook called for Mark Zukerberg’s resignation as CEO, so much rancor online and in the news.

He eventually had to show up ‘’in a suit and a tie’’ to the US Congress to answer questions on this matter.

However, one decision by a leader made this mess go away.

Do you know what that is?

It’s called Self Responsibility.

Here’s a statement he made, ‘’It was my mistake, and I’m sorry…I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.”

A lot of people don’t know what it means to take responsibility for themselves, their actions or even their businesses.

Anything happening in their life is as a result of what someone else said or did to them.

They have a victim mentality and the stories they tell themselves paint them as the victim seeking for saving from a big, bad villain who’s a constant in their life.

What stories do you tell yourself?

When things don’t go well, do you play the victim or take the fall gracefully, get up and clean up the mess?

It’s hard to take responsibility.

However, doing this will give you much more leverage and speed in the impact of your storytelling, because people will always connect with a vulnerable, authentic leader.

I hope this helps you in your life journey as an influential storyteller.

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Esohe Igbinoba

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Had my First Labor Room Experience at Age 10, Founder, The Global Brand Network, Influential Storytelling Expert. Connect with me on queenesohe.com.

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