The ongoing success of LinkedIN Leadership: a 2.0 ship that leads, is 3.0 mobile and well oriented towards 4.0. Jeff Weiner′s horizontal leadership.

 When you read Frankfurt, Germany, December 24th 2015 January 1st 2016 it is correct.  My wish was to have published this at the beginning of the year but I kept on taking notes to publish this today on April 30th after I completed my research.

Walt Disney said that there are 3 types of people

• “Well Poisoners” who criticize and try to tear people down rather than build them up
• “Lawn Mowers” good people who do their jobs, pay their taxes, and take care of their families and homes but never venture beyond their own yards to help others; and
• “Life Enhancers” who by their kind words and deeds enhance the lives of others and leave their world a better place for having lived.

Therefore this article is written with a life enhancement perspective because as Michele Blood explains in her book with Proctor (Become a Magnet to Money : Sea of Unlimited Consciousness) many times we think we are right it is wrong it is our ego. Only when our soul connects with the intellect we get it right.  No wonder why she quotes this

 

 

 

 

In reality she mentions a number of leaders who reach Level V (will explain this in due course because St Francis of Assissi is one of them ) but the point today is at whatever stage of your life you are you must

- start doing what is necessary

- then do what is possible

- and then you suddenly are doing the impossible

 Structure and flow of writing a great article 

Structure and flow of writing a great article is indeed a heading which goes out in purple (not in bold) because I would recommend you to

a) read it

b) apply it by the book

c) start drafting 6 to 10 high quality well researched articles before you publish them ( I saw someone in London yesterday who had 35 drafts prepared)

Back in 2010 I got this awesome list from a fellow LInkedin contact

and since them

a) I increased my leadership library to circa 300 books

b) I can share content with you

Therefore in order to come to terms with the power of what you can accomplish these previous articles are indispensable

A whole new worldwide leadership via LinkedIn′s Economic Graph (I)

To be a leader you first must be a reader. 50 books a year is the minimum, it is doable at 1 hour a day

Leadership began with you, continued with 2.0, now is H2H in Pulse 3.0

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles asserts that all of us have the ability to obtain enough wealth to live as we desire and to fulfill our purpose in life. There exists a science of getting rich -- and like algebra or arithmetic, once this science is understood and replicated, it will create wealth. Wealth is as infinite as the creative mind. Create ideas, take action and abundance will flow with mathematical certainty.

This assertion from Wattles plus this one from Napoleon Hill

Seven basic fears can stand between you and success.  They are the fear of poverty, criticism, ill health, loss of love,  liberty, old age and death.  Because your mind always seeks to transform your thoughts into their physical equivalent, you must use your absolute power over what you think to eliminate such negative impulses and replace them with positive thoughts by mastering your thoughts, you master your fears (Napoleon Hill)

explain humans′inability to see an opportunity which is right there. 

Often, people reject a business proposition or a business plan because they have a mental concept of what is supposedly like, or have heard from a second or third hand source or a disgruntled person.  Such person never ventures out far enough into deep water to achieve success or attain the financial benefits they might have had.  Taking the risk, taking the plunge in business is just one of the simple risks in life (Pat Mesiti, Attitudes and Altitudes)

 

Jeff Weiner′s horizontal leadership

This is Jeff Weiner′s, LinkedIN CEO, last January

We are the same company we were the day before our earnings announcement. I'm the same CEO I was the day before our earnings announcement. You're the same team you were the day before our earnings announcement. And most importantly, we have the same mission, vision, and sense of purpose in terms of our ability to create economic opportunity. None of that has changed. It hasn't changed one iota. (Jeff Weiner)

as you can see at

which is horizontal leadership

as it should be. Jose Ballesteros makes it clear: it is not possible to lead through vertical hierarchies because if you do it you are not leading.

Within a few weeks Jeff doubled his leadership effort with this

which is 100% in line with Ronald Stern′s unique 10 steps path on leadership

Original source v media source

 From my extensive leadership library of some 300 read and applied books (quite modest compared with Ronald Stern′s 4000 to date no wonder why he was a personal friend of Peter Drucker) I once read this quote

If you do not track something you cannot measure it

which I memorized by heart.  With time I encountered this

 

 

 

 

which pretty much sums up what I always applied (I was the first SEC seminar attendant to Sarbanes-Oxley training in the US in 2002 so to me earning calls as Director of Audit of Nasdaq/NYSE is quite normal business) but also what I later learnt from Sharon Lechter′s Outwitting the Devil, Steve Siebold′s 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class and Bob Proctor′s You Were Born Rich and by extension of any of his books and materials is that the media is never meaningful in its content.

The point is this: I only look and read the original source

this has an ad-hoc section

and financially trained people like the undersigned only look at this awesome, clean and professional lay-out since the company became public

To prove my point a couple of extracts from this presentation 

In 2010 after my February training with Jan Vermeiren (his How to Really Use LInkedIN book became compulsory in Europe) I applied what I said above (tracking and measurement) and noted that every quarter LinkedIN always adds a minimum of 15 million users (at that time 5 million per month).  This quarter was 19 million new users therefore the maths are simple

- 433 Million users as of 31.03.2016

- Minimum of 15 million users per quarter gives us surely 500 Million as of April 30th 2017 (and probably much earlier)

That is why every single Executive (out of  550) trained by us knows by heart i.e. the LInkedIN user number sequence since 2003 to date.  I trained yesterday to user number 489 Million which is obviously from 2016.  He is excited. His business is Yoga and wholeheartedly wants to train Business Executives on its benefits.

Here you have Jeff Weiner outlining LInkedIN′s  vision for a decade already in 2014 and starting with the same point the users

In terms of the revenues

it is incorrect to compare 862 v 861 above as many people do.  All Board members know the key is to compare numbers to the same quarter last year.  And the results are outstanding

Q 1- 2015 638 Million $
Q1 - 2016 861 Million $

So when ones sees this interview in Germany

quickly realizes that the Anchor has had only 1 activity in LInkedin all this time.  But I welcome her attitude (good professional) because all those investment bankers who were freely speaking ( I get a google alert daily on LInkediN and do know who they are) had Zero Activity.  They were giving "opinions" on LInkedin without neither using it at all nor having a strategy.

This statement from Jeff

Q1 was a strong start to the year as LinkedIn once again delivered results that exceeded our plan. I want to highlight three key themes from the quarter. First, engagement materially strengthened across our member platform, driven by our new flagship experience. Second, our core monetization products — Recruiter and Sponsored Updates — showed continued growth, while our emerging strategic investments such as Sales Navigator and Learning & Development continue to show progress. And third, we saw significant improvements in our ability to increase ROI across the business. (Jeff Weiner)

would be good (actually excellent) enough for any Board Member (Chair who endorsed me in LInkedIN in 2008) or given that Jeff does an awesome job respecting Yahoo, the statement would also be for instance excellent for Fred Amoroso whom I know since 2002 at Meta Group and who later on was Chairman of Yahoo and brought in the current CEO.

Where is the discrepancy then ?

Volatility of the markets as well as Einstein principle

Humans do not have enough knowledge therefore their opinions are ego driven because as Bob Proctor′s put it the human brain tends to believe lies

"The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence."   Charles F. Haanel

In the interview the anchor talks about "learning" like if Learning was a punishment that is why the leadership quote of the beginning of this article is this

 

 

 

 

 

it is from JFK but and in order to make this bi-partizan I put Bush also because

which is an excellent quote once again from JFK that explains why Stern speaks of him as one of the leaders of humanity.  But in order to be balanced (and as Ronald Stern is also called Ronnie) here we have Ronnie Reagan

 

 

 

 

 The bottom line is this: whether you want to think as a Democrat or as a Republican ( most TV viewers do) or simply as a non-politician like I do (networkers stay above politicians and media), when Jeff Weiner says that he is very satisfied with his current team 

a) he is right and he is leading it rightly

b) he has proved it over years

c) Reid Hoffman and Los Cinco de LInkediN have demonstrated their excellence since December 2002 in that living room meeting. This from Reid is much better than an MBA lesson

d) his people (see Drucker/Reagan above) prove it everyday so the leadership is first class.  Here you have Koka Sexton, Dan Roth and their Wonderful Customer Service

 

Koka is right. Today AML is still out there at LinkedIn Help answering with passion to all users.  The service starts at 6 am! in some cases.  People on holiday and these guys working for the better. Chapeau! as we say in Europe.  This is the right business.

Talking about the right business from my leadership library above I think I have this also from Wallace Wattles here there are a few of his tips

"1. Getting into the Right Business  SUCCESS, in any particular business, depends upon your possessing in a well-developed state the faculties required in that business.

2.  Without good musical faculty no one can succeed as a teacher of music; ; without tact and the commercial faculties no one can succeed in mercantile pursuits.

3. But to possess in a well-developed state the faculties required in your particular vocation does not insure getting rich. There are musicians who have remarkable talent, and who yet remain poor; and there are merchants with good faculties for dealing with men who nevertheless fail.  

4. The different faculties are tools; it is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the Right Way.

5. The various faculties of your mind are the tools with which you must do the work which is to make you rich; it will be easier for you to succeed if you get into a business for which you are well equipped with mental tools.  

6.  You can get rich in ANY business, for if you have not the right talent for you can develop that talent; it merely means that you will have to make your tools as you go along, instead of confining yourself to the use of those with which you were born.

7. It will be EASIER for you to succeed in a vocation for which you already have the talents in a well-developed state; but you CAN succeed in any vocation, for you can develop any rudimentary talent, and there is no talent of which you have not at least the rudiment. "

 These 7 wise advices from Wattles can be inferred here in this interview from Lewis Howes (self-made 7 figure income made out of LInkedIn clients) to Jack Canfield

I am not at the level of Lewis and Jack.  They are successful because as Wattles said You will get rich most easily in point of effort, if you do that for which you are best fitted; but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do.  Please note Wattles refers all the time to tools. This is a tool for you but you have to listen to Jill Rowley as well.

It all comes down to this phenomenal concept of Bob Proctor

There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.  When you get out of the competitive mind you will understand that you never need to act hastily. No one else is going to beat you to the thing you want to do; there is enough for all sustained Wattles and then Proctor came to say that his concept of Image Maker takes us away from the competitive plane and puts us on the creative plane. 100% correct Mr Proctor.  But we humans do not see it that easily.

Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and begin to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.(Wallace Wattles)

Peopled do forget to say thanks 100 times a day (suggestion from The Film/Book The Secret).  When I learned this I became wiser.  Trust me

 Wallace sustains that gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come; and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought. 

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, my gratitude to Linkedin for a wonderful business model in a growing economic graph . Congratulations to Jeff and his team for his ongoing achievements which I have seen quarterly since February 2010.  In 1 year time 500 Million users will be a big reality.

To the current 433 Millon users plus I tell them 

a) you have a friend here

b) from Dale Carnegie I learnt "Do not criticize, condemn or complaint"

c) I already gave a good informal tutorial with Vint Cerf (Father of the Internet) in 2013 which he thanked me when I showed him my faith in LInkedIN

d) Opinions do not make money, opinions keep people broke

e) We already have a 550 plus stable customer base of which 400 plus are recurrent  on a monthly basis. Nothing of what I have written here has a commercial objective. Simply an educational one

Therefore all what I wrote is from the bottom of my Christian heart to yours wherever you are in the world.  God Bless You All

If you want to contact me you have here

2.0 profile

If you want to follow me you have here

3.0 Pulse Mobile

however you should know that only by clicking My Network/Connections you have the real state of your network i.e. Followers do not get as much as the 7560 first degree contacts get

If you read little you will act like many, if you read a lot you will act like just a few (Jorge Zuazola)

To your success

- start doing what is necessary

- then do what is possible

- you suddenly are doing the impossible