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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: Lessons on Leading a High-Growth Business

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks leadership lessons with Reid Hoffman on the Masters of Scale podcast. Photo by Jacqui Ipp.

Leading a high-growth company and scaling it into a tech empire involves working through countless challenges: You need to constantly innovate, adapt with the economy, navigate relationships with executives, evolve your team, and more. Sheryl Sandberg knows this experience intimately, from her time as Google¡¯s VP of global online sales and operations ¡ª during which she scaled the company¡¯s online sales team from four to 4,000, driving two-thirds of the company¡¯s revenue ¡ª?through her past nine years as Facebook¡¯s chief operating officer.

To get to where she ¡ª and Facebook ¡ª is today, Sandberg has learned hard leadership lessons about growing a team and a company.

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Looking to grow your executive network? Here’s what I¡¯ve learned over 15 years.

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Don¡¯t be afraid to take risks, like introducing yourself to someone?¡ª?in person?¡ª?on a?whim.

I still remember the early days of networking, before LinkedIn existed to help organize your professional life. When you¡¯re fresh out of college, networking typically means going to happy hours, checking in with former classmates, and keeping in touch with mentors from your summer internships. But it¡¯s the people who decide to go above and beyond college or corporate happy hours?¡ª?with creative approaches to introductions?¡ª?who can really stand out.

After you¡¯ve been in the workforce for 15-plus years like I have, your networking strategy needs to evolve to place you in front of the right senior executives at innovative, cutting-edge companies. Remember that you are your own best publicist and it¡¯s OK to be forward, ambitious, and scrappy to open the right doors. Don¡¯t be afraid to take risks like introducing yourself to someone?¡ª?in person?¡ª?on a whim. Don¡¯t hide behind LinkedIn connections online. Instead, create real, long-lasting relationships that will connect you with the biggest opportunities of your life.

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