Leadership style sued by Bill Gates Having left his classroom studies at high school level, Bill Gates went on to form and lead one of the most successful computer manufacturing business of all times at the global level, the Microsoft. This would not Continue Reading...
Each of the core values of Bill Gates continue to make the attainment of this mission highly efficient. Being with optimism, Bill Gates creates a culture of goal attainment in his foundation, making the possible attainable through a combination of i Continue Reading...
Leader in the Business World Leadership style Bill Gates' leadership style is purely autocratic or sometimes called authoritarian (Thielen, 2000). This kind of a leader makes most or all of the organizational decisions without the input or involvem Continue Reading...
Leadership and Organizations: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs The theories of leadership date way back to when dynasties existed and people were led by kings. The leader took control and made decisions whenever disputes arose. The question of leadership q Continue Reading...
You're alert to the most important things, and your nervous system blocks out the information that isn't important to you. Companies need to have that same kind of nervous system -- the ability to run smoothly and efficiently, to respond quickly to Continue Reading...
By channeling his energy in another direction, Gates shows that he is not a one-dimensional leader only involved in promoting his company, but a three-dimensional leaders interested in helping the world be a better place. Just one of the programs t Continue Reading...
Furthermore, there are a number of similarities and overlaps between such leadership theories that do not prevent their being characterized as transformational in nature. For example, "Most leaders behave in both transactional and transformational w Continue Reading...
Narcissistic leaders are part of society and take on roles that promote at times progress, at other times, chaos. This is because the narcissistic leader only cares about him or herself (Maccoby, 2012). Although such leaders may be useful in certain Continue Reading...
He sets the vision and tone for many billionaires, and it is this vision and tone that helps Bill Gates to make a far greater contribution to the world than his corporate endeavors would ever allow. Bill Gates has donated billions to charity, and i Continue Reading...
Azim Premji Azim Hasham Premji was born in July, 1945, in Karachi, India. In 1966, as he was a 21-year-old engineering student at Stanford University in California, when he learned that his father had passed away in India; he went back to India to Continue Reading...
Leadership of Oprah Winfrey When most people think of Oprah Winfrey, they will often associate her with the long running self named talk show (i.e. Oprah). However, throughout the course of her life she has endured various challenges that shaped her Continue Reading...
Leadership [Institution's State] Blog 1: Theories and Models of Leadership and Management An organization is a collection of multidimensional components and there are complex equations between all of these components. It encompasses various indivi Continue Reading...
leadership concepts related with the effective leadership development. It chooses and evaluates the transformational leadership style. It addresses the following questions. What are the qualities associated with transformational leadership style? Ho Continue Reading...
Leadership The author of this report is asked to answer to a number of questions relating to leadership. First is a compare and contrast of Fiedler's Model of Leadership followed by a description of the Cognitive Resource Theory. Next, it is asked Continue Reading...
He is also an advocate of higher education reform, and believes that the curriculums of many American universities are ignoring some very important aspects of education. In his book, he continues, "Some universities are starting to build e-business Continue Reading...
Global Leadership Competencies International organizations need transformation. Leaders in all sectors have a challenge to lead globally now and in the future. This requires an examination of current leaders of international organizations who have a Continue Reading...
The fact that Lysistrata's "came to power" by virtue of her own leadership abilities which were recognized and celebrated by their peers rather than having them thrust upon her from above is pointed out by Ober (1989), who reports, "The Athenians' d Continue Reading...
Bill Gates is perhaps a good example in this sense: Microsoft during the early 70s was but a mixture of their programmers, but they selected Bill Gates to coordinate and organize their efforts because they saw him as the best prepared among them. Th Continue Reading...
Leader Business Leadership: A Literature Review Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. Carly Fiorina. What do these names have in common? An easy one - they are all CEO's of major global corporations. They are businessmen, and women, at the tops of their profess Continue Reading...
Entrepreneurial Team Leadership History of team leadership It was with the military idea that the traditional concept of business leadership started in the U.S. The olden industrial business like the railways espoused a hierarchy system of manageme Continue Reading...
Transactional Leadership and Transformational Leadership Transactional leadership style is a leadership style that uses group performance, organization, and supervision to get results. It is also called managerial leadership. This leadership style is Continue Reading...
Introduction Leadership is an important trait that influences personal and organizational success. It relates to the ability to establish a vision and set the direction for other people. Leadership is not always about creating what a team should do t Continue Reading...
Good ideas are no longer assumed to merely rest in the minds of the organization's top leadership personnel, and employee loyalty to the company cannot be assumed, given that even the best employees know that they may be laid off during these volati Continue Reading...
Microsoft's strategies relating to leadership. First, an overview of the company will be provided, followed by a discussion of the company's leadership strategies. These strategies will be assessed as to their effectiveness, and compared to leading Continue Reading...
Bill Gates: A Successful Business Leader A Successful Business Leader The business world has changed into an uncertain and competitive environment where business entities compete with each other on the basis of their distinctive competencies and st Continue Reading...
Aligning with the interests and concerns of one’s people is part of what helps to make a leader effective, as Calhoun and Damm (2015) point out. The other part of what makes a leader effective is vision and ability—and the two go together Continue Reading...
The concepts of leadership -- charisma for example -- become subject to academic study and analysis. This ultimately produces insight into particular leadership types and understanding of the nature of those types (Westley & Mintzberg, 1989). Ma Continue Reading...
Contingency Theory and Global Leadership JUST HOW APT Contingency Theory Emphasizes Problems and Issues in Global Situations The contingency theory of leadership fits the leader to the situation (Northouse, 2012). It tests his effectiveness on th Continue Reading...
Ten-Year Billionaire: Mark Zuckerberg My 2011 challenge is to become a vegetarian and only eat meat if I kill the animal myself. The reason for this is that I feel lucky for having such a great life. In order to practice thankfulness, I want to be m Continue Reading...
Leaders There are four types of leaders, each with a slightly different style, each with slightly different strengths. The four leadership styles are telling, selling, developing and delegating (Beck and Yeager, 2001). The first leader exercises h Continue Reading...
likeability is effected by management in the international workplace. It assumes a phenomenological approach to the notion of likeability, and is based on the idea that likeability in management is fundamental to achieving "connectedness" among empl Continue Reading...
John Mackey: Whole Foods Leader Leadership is often defined as having an inspirational function. "Leadership is the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals. A leader does not have to be someone who holds a formal position or tit Continue Reading...
Warren Buffett Profile & Analysis Warren Buffett Warren Buffett as an entrepreneur is a vexing case as many people view him as a hero of entrepreneurship while others view him as an example of entrepreneurship run amok and/or as a man that enga Continue Reading...
Visionary Leaders Leaders come in many different types and flavors with the visionary leaders being the most prominent and cited much of the time. Names that come to mind are Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett. This report will cover the t Continue Reading...
The Soviet threat continued to loom, propelling Eisenhower squarely into a second term. He had endeared himself to the American public as a strong anti-communist president, a decorated war hero who would keep America strong, prosperous, and triumpha Continue Reading...
76). As automation increasingly assumes the more mundane and routine aspects of work of all types, Drucker was visionary in his assessment of how decisions would be made in the years to come. "In the future," said Drucker, "it was possible that all Continue Reading...
The only observation that could be made here is that one would expect a larger proportion of the total expenses to be allocated to research and development, given the fact that this is such an important part of Microsoft's activity and essential in Continue Reading...
Deutschman, Alan. (200) The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. New York, Doubleday. For those individuals with short memories, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer is the technical guru who led his company to prominence with the iMac and the iPod. But this recent Continue Reading...
Rule breaking, innovation or ethical dilemma? Annotated Bibliography People often think that in order to run a business, or be a leader, one must adhere to all the rules. But the old saying "Some rules are made to be broken" rings true. Many succes Continue Reading...
