Outcome Oriented

VandeWalle defined oriented outcome as one’s ability to demonstrate or develop new skills, adapt oneself in the environment and solve problems in unexpected situation besides increases the competency in the market. According to Breland and Donovan, outcome oriented defines an individual’s implicit goals that motivate the interpretation, understanding and response to the achievement situations. This goal will influence the method someone learn and the actions they will take to respond to what they had learned. The entrepreneur will first set the goal and then follow by planning the strategic to achieve those goals. In the process of moving towards the goals that they target, the entrepreneur needs to monitor the progress and make a correction if the progress is not what the entrepreneur wants. Entrepreneurs who are outcome oriented prefer to prove their competency and gain favourable judgement besides avoiding negative judgements of their competence was mentioned by Dweck.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on 14th May 1984 in White Plains, New York. He was raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a small Westchester Country village. Edward Zuckerberg, his father, is a dentist and his mother, Karen Kempner, was a psychiatrist. He has three sisters named Randi, Donna and Arielle Zuckerberg. He was always had the interest in computers since he was 12 years old when he created a messaging programme named “Zucknet” by using the Atari BASIC which was later used by his father in his dental office and in the house. At first, he studied at Ardsley High School and then transferred to Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. During high school, he created an early version of the music software Pandora that he named as Synapse which can pick up its user’s listening habits. After that, he enrols in Harvard University where he studied computer science and psychology but Mark Zuckerberg drop out during his sophomore year. Currently, he is the seventh wealthiest person in the world according to Forbes.

Mark Zuckerberg is an outcome oriented entrepreneur as he creates things that he wants to create. For example, when he was young, he created a computer game that his friends had drawn. Mark also created Facemash in Harvard University that used to choose the hottest person by comparing two pictures of the students but it was shut down by Harvard executive. After that, he and his friends need to create a social study tool as a project which they came up with “Thefacebook” on 4th February 2004 with the aim to have one billion users from the day one. The purpose at the beginning was only connecting the Harvard university students but then Mark intended to extend it to the other universities. This shows that from the young age, he adapted him with the technology skills and techniques that enable him to compete with other social websites such as Friendster and MySpace. Facebook at the beginning had limited function but as time passes, the team always come up with new ideas to keep people connected all around the world and never get bored with the Facebook such as inserting the News Feed, timeline design, ability to tag friends, games, birthdays, pictures, videos and so on. Mark started with the aim of 1 billion users in 2004 and today the number of active users is 1.49 billion. Besides that, Facebook also had purchased the WhatsApp and Instagram application which believed to be a threat. Mark Zuckerberg started by a simple idea with a goal that he took action to carry out the idea and ensure that it reached his goal with the aim to connect people worldwide.