Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

What do you think Bill Gate’s personality traits are for each of the Big Five dimensions?
First dimension of Big Five is surgency which refers to dominance. Bill Gates has the leadership traits and he tends to be in charge. Bill Gates is known as a demanding boss. He would be in charge for the “Bill” meetings and dominant in the meetings. He carries the extraversion traits whereas he is has positive emotions and full of energy. His character of interrupting presentation and questioning the presenter to provide him with logical answers shows that he is an action oriented person with full of energy.
Second is the openness to experience where he carries willingness to try new things traits. He is full of ideas and imaginary visions on what he expect to see in future and changes that he want to see. He opens his mind to new possibilities such as the idea of bridging all home entertainment into one single access and control. Besides this, he also encourages the employees to be creative and recognizes their achievements as well.
Third is conscientiousness where he carries responsibility and achievement traits. Bill Gates founded Microsoft as a partnership in 1981. He convinced IBM to include his operating systems into their PCs and in 2004 Microsoft was the world’s third largest public company ahead of IBM itself. This proves his achievement over the time in growing the business stronger and solid.
Fourth is agreeableness. Although Bill Gates is not recorded for being friendly, he does carry the sociable traits whereas he founded Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and had spend millions of dollars to charity worldwide regardless on race and religion or ethnic groups. It shows his sympathy and caring on others. At the same time, from the text, he is mentioned that several of his early employees are now millionaires which ensure that Bill Gates is not a greedy boss, he care for his fellow employees and willing to share the piece of the cake and succeed together.
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Fifth is adjustment. Bill Gates has emotional stability traits whereas he does not release his stress toward his employees and him never express being moody in any situation. He is a happening person who knows what he does and always in control. He has self-control. He is calm and good under pressures.

2. Which of the nine traits of effective leaders would you say have had the greatest impact on Bill and Melinda Gates’s success? Compare the two and Explain(choose 1 of the 9 traits for Melinda and 1 for Bill).
Which of the nine traits of effective leaders would you say has had the greatest impact on Bill Gates’s success?
First is dominance. Bill Gates is dominance in his management whereas he led the team and he takes the full charge over the team. Even the meeting that conducted with Bill Gates is named as “Bill” Meetings proves that he is dominance. He also interrupts the meeting and questions the meeting members. This shows that he is dominance in his management.

Second is high energy. Bill Gates is high energy person who actively participate in the firm’s primary activities. Besides the management activities, he also participates in software development. Even he participates in and coordinates business units although he is no longer hold Chief Executive Officer Post in the Microsoft firm.

Third is self-confidence. Bill Gates has serious self confidence which was highly contribute to his success. Even from his young age, Bill Gates self-confidence was visible whereas he, who was in his 20s, handling small Microsoft Company, convinced the giant IBM firm to include his newly written Operating System. This wouldn’t be possible if he did not present himself with full of self-confidence.

Fourth is intelligence. Bill Gates is of course intelligence from his early age itself. This statement is based on his history whereas he developed a version of programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer. Microcomputer wasn’t popular that time and developing a programming language for the new born machines aren’t easy but yet he made it possible through his intelligence. Fifth is flexibility. Bill Gates was quite reasonable and flexible in his management. Although he is dominant, he still encouraged the employees and team members to think creativity and all their inputs are welcome and never limited. A good product would be born from good idea regardless on how ridicules the idea is. Therefore he was quite flexible and this trait had resulted Microsoft to continuously grow with new innovations including several business units. Further to this, according to the text, Bill Gates delegates authority to managers to run their independent departments and proves he is flexible

Sixth is internal locus of control. Bill Gates was dedicated and focused on his target and he brought the firm in that right direction. He had never blamed any other parties over his decision and he was strict on his decision. The key point is, he does know what he intended to do and he did so. This leads to his success at young age and drastic growth of Microsoft.

Seventh is integrity. Bill Gates is honest to himself and the firm. He had never cheated or misleads any team players and he worked with numbers of employees with less conflict. Although there was argument arise in his meeting, his integrity never changed and what ever he promised the employees has been execute. For instance, some of the earlier employees of Microsoft’s are millionaires today because he promised them the benefit and as the firm grow, the employees also grow and they are fulfilled with what he promised. Emphasize his honesty in business.

Eighth is stability. Bill Gates is emotionally in control. He had never let his emotions to take over or influence his decisions. He is always positive in his decisions. His management was effectiveness and very successful since he ran the management.