July - 2013 - issue > In My Opinion

Gear up to Inspire and Make Anything Possible

Jeff Weiner

CEO -LinkedIn

Monday, July 1, 2013

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Founded in the living room of a co-founder in 2002, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), an online professional network, was officially launched in May 2003. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company has a market cap of $19.80 billion.

There has always been a tug of war between ‘Leadership’ and ‘Management’ for the top notch. Even though they overlap each other, they are not synonyms. There is a huge difference between two. With management, you find people who tell you what to do but leadership inspires others and inspiration to me is the key. But now the question arises, “What does it take to inspire others?” According to me, there are three components to true inspiration.

1. Clarity of Vision:

What help are you trying to take, what vision do you have, what sense of purpose strides in your motivation, and what do you see in other people that others are not seeing? The clearer you can be about these, the more easily you can understand a lot of people.