Sheryl Sandberg is Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. She oversees the firm's business operations including sales, marketing, business development, legal, human resources, public policy and communications.
Prior to Facebook, Sandberg was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, where she built and managed the online sales channels for advertising and publishing and operations for consumer products worldwide. She previously served as Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton and began her career as an economist with the World Bank.
Sandberg is the author of the book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. She also serves on the boards of Facebook, ONE, The Walt Disney Company, Women for Women International, the Center for Global Development and V-Day.
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Last Updated: Fri, Mar 29, 2013
| Category | Title | Author/Speaker | Organization | Length | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Leveraging Relationships and Scaling Yourself | Sheryl Sandberg | 02:38 | 04/2009 | |
| Video | Make It Personal and Make It Work | Sheryl Sandberg | 07:18 | 04/2009 | |
| Video | Moving Product at Unprecedented Scale | Sheryl Sandberg | 04:22 | 04/2009 | |
| Video | Scaling Vision, Products, and Yourself | Sheryl Sandberg | 01:13 | 04/2009 | |
| Podcast | Spotlight on Scalability | Sheryl Sandberg | 57:56 | 04/2009 | |
| Video | The Importance of Authentic Communication | Sheryl Sandberg | 04:45 | 04/2009 | |
| Video | The Scaling of Vision | Sheryl Sandberg | 02:49 | 04/2009 |
Your career is based on relationships with other people, says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. How do you leverage them? She encourages students to separate people into two exclusive teams: Those who can hire you, and those who can help you plot your career path. 
Connecting community and making information accessible are the two overarching threads that run through some of the most successful companies of the last century, points out Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. Here, she cites her own personal career path that began in the non-profit sector and evolved into technology, and numerous examples of companies with purpose, drive, and scalable vision, including Google, Apple, Nike, and Starbucks. She speaks of these as case studies to drive home her point on effective leadership containing a vision that will scale over time, place, and product line.
When you think about a product that scales, future entrepreneurs must consider web and mobile technologies, as they've allowed for unprecedented, accelerated, broader markets than ever before conceivable. Truly understand the economics of distribution; Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO talks about old print media and music and how they've been trumped by the free distribution of the Web. She strongly encourages those venturing into business to take this business angle into account.
What wisdom does Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, pass to the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders? The importance of impact, and the necessity for that impact to be scalable. Plan for your operations to entice change with a decreasing marginal cost, and for new ventures to grow legs and utility beyond the one-to-one user experience. Company vision, products, and the individual all have their own metric of scale. In this clip, Sandberg introduces these ideas and their application.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shares her trilogy of ideas for a successful start-up and a fulfilling career. Her thoughts include building an enterprise with scalable vision, building personalized, scalable products, and the ability to scale your own connections and capabilities.
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, talks about the importance of communication in scaling one's own career and business relationships. She recommends that rather than stating opinions as facts, managers state beliefs and the facts that support it, and encourage others to do the same, as a tool to encourage better information sharing. She also encourages everyone to take full responsibility for the actions, and to make them personal, stating that this ownership is a crucial building block at all stages of one's career.
People running organizations often make a distinction between management and leadership - the former being mathematical and scientific, the latter being more artful and magical. While management can conjure up compliance in a workforce, it takes real leadership to drum up passion and enthusiasm. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, does not claim to have all of the answers to effective leadership, but she believes trust and respect are necessities.