桑德伯格哈佛商学院毕业演讲
The speech given by Facebook COO, Sheryl Kara Sandberg at Harvard University
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It’s an honor to be here today to address HBS’s distinguished faculty, proud parents, patient guests, and most importantly, the class of 2012.
Today was suppod to be a day of unbridled celebration and I know that’s no longer true. I join all of you in grieving for your classmate Nate. There are no words which can make this better.
Though laden with sadness, today still marks a distinct and impressive achievement for this class. So plea join me in giving our warmest congratulations to this class.
When Dean Nohria asked me to speak here today, I thought, come talk to a group of people way younger and cooler than I am? I can do that. I do that every day at Facebook. I like being surrounded by young people, except when they say to me, “What was it like being in college without the internet?” or wor,” Sheryl, can you come here? We need to s
ee what old people think of this feature.”生活笑话
When I was a student here 17 years ago, I studied social marketing with Professor Kash Rangan. One of the many examples Kash ud to explain the concept of social marketing was the lack of organ donors in this country, which kills 18 people every single day. Earlier this month, Facebook launched a tool to support organ donations, something that stems directly from Kash’s work. Kash, we are all grateful for your dedication.
SANDBERG’S HARVARD SECTION TRIED TO HAVE THE SCHOOL’S FIRST ONLINE CLASS
It wasn’t really that long ago when I was sitting where you are, but the world has changed an awful lot. My ction, ction B, tried to have HBS’s first online class. We had to u an AOL chat room and dial up rvice. (Your parents can explain to you later what dial-up rvice is.) We had to pass out a list of screen names becau it was unthinkable to put your real name on the internet. And it never worked. It kept crashing. The world just wasn’t t up for 90 people to communicate at once online. But for a few brief moments,
we glimpd the future – a future where technology would power who we are and connect us to our real colleagues, our real family, our real friends.
It ud to be that in order to reach more people than you could talk to in a day, you had to be rich and famous and powerful. You had to be a celebrity, a politician, a CEO. But that’s not true today. Now ordinary people have voice, not just tho of us lucky to go to HBS, but anyone with access to Facebook, Twitter, a mobile phone. This is disrupting traditional power structures and leveling traditional hierarchy. Control and power are shifting from institutions to individuals, from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. And all of this is happening so much faster than I could have imagined when I was sitting where you are today – and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old.
‘WE WOULDN’T EVEN THINK ABOUT HIRING SOMEONE LIKE YOU’
As the world becomes more connected and less hierarchical, traditional career paths are shifting as well. In 2001, after working in the government, I moved out to Silicon Valley to try to find a job. My timing wasn’t really that good. The bubble had crashed. Small compa
nies were closing. Big companies were laying people off. One CEO looked at me and said, “we wouldn’t even think about hiring someone like you.”
After a while I had a few offers and I had to make a decision, so what did I do? I am MBA trained, so I made a spreadsheet. I listed my jobs in the columns and my criteria in the rows. One of the jobs on that sheet was to become Google’s first Business Unit general manager, which sounds good now, but at the time no one thought consumer internet companies could ever make money. I was not sure there was actually a job there at all; Google had no business units, so what was there to generally manage? And the job was veral levels lower than jobs I was being offered at other companies.
So I sat down with Eric Schmidt, who had just become the CEO, and I showed him the spreadsheet and I said, this job meets none of my criteria. He put his hand on my spreadsheet and he looked at me and said, “Don’t be an idiot.”
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EXCELLENT CAREER ADVICE: ‘GET ON A ROCKET SHIP’
Excellent career advice. And then he said, “Get on a rocket ship. When companies are growing quickly and having a lot of impact, careers take care of themlves. And when companies aren’t growing quickly or their missions don’t matter as much, that’s when stagnation and politics come in. If you’re offered a at on a rocket ship, don’t ask what at. Just get on.”
寒门出贵子是什么意思>找因数的方法
About six and one-half years later, when I was leaving Google, I took that advice to heart. I was offered CEO jobs at a bunch of companies, but I went to Facebook as COO. At the time people said, why are you going to work for a 23-year-old?
THE METAPHOR FOR A CAREER IS NO LONGER A LADDER; IT’S A JUNGLE GYM团美
The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make n in a less hierarchical world. When I was first at Facebook, a woman named Lori Goler, a 1997 graduate of HBS, was working in marketing at eBay and I knew her a bit socially. She called me and said, “I want to talk with you about coming to work with you at Facebook. So I thought about calling you and telling you all th
e things I’m good at and all the things I like to do. But I figured that everyone is doing that. So instead I want to know what’s your biggest problem and how can I solve it?”
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