Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook (and Instagram)
“remained silent” during the two days after the data-breach scandal broke in
March, 2018 as E.U. and U.S. lawmakers “pummeled Facebook and its stock price”
dropped 9 percent.[1] The
company lost $50 billion in market value in just those two days![2]
Beyond the self-interested investors and the demoralized employees, the company’s
2 billion users—the suppliers of the raw content (to be mined as well as
shared)—and the world (i.e., societal level) looked for ethical (i.e., atoning
as well as protective) leadership from the company’s CEO. To be just, I submit,
the leadership could not have been a mere reflection of Zuckerberg’s or
Facebook’s immediate self-interests.
The full essay is at "Leadership Lacking at Facebook."
The full essay is at "Leadership Lacking at Facebook."
Employees look for leadership in the midst of a demoralizing crisis. (USA Today)
See the essay, "Facebook: A Distrustful Company."
See also the booklet, Taking the Face off Facebook
1. Jessica
Guynn, “As
Facebook Reels from ‘Catastrophic Moment’ in Cambridge Analytica Crisis,”
Mark Zuckerberg Is Silent,” USA Today,
March 21, 2018.
2. Kevin
Roose and Sheera Frenkel, “Missing
From Facebook’s Crisis: Mark Zuckerberg,” The New York Times, March 21, 2018.