Background: Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey..…………………………………………2. 4.1. Bill Gates…………………………………………………………………………….2. 4.2. Oprah Winfrey……………………………………………………………………....3. 4. Literature Review: Theories on leadership…………………………………………...4. 5.3. Traits Theories…………………………………………………………………......4. 5.4. Leadership Styles…………………………………………………………………..5. 5.5. Transactional versus Transformational Theories……………………………….6. 5. Critical Review of Leadership Qualities: Bill Gates and Oprah
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Bill Gates has been a CEO of Microsoft in the past and is currently a CEO of Cascade Investment. “Bill Gates founded the world’s largest software business‚ Microsoft‚ and subsequently became one of the richest men in the world” (“Bill Gates Biography” par.1). He started without having anything and took a huge risk of starting the new business by himself. Bill Gates has worked very hard his entire life generating the Microsoft company
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Bill Gates: Before Microsoft From his first business venture through his multi-billion dollar deals‚ Bill Gates has always been a ferocious and keen businessman. Bill Gates first started tinkering with computers when his high school‚ Lakeside Prep‚ wanted to acquaint its students with computers. In 1968 the school held a fund raiser to buy computer time on a DEC PDP-10 computer that was owned by General Electric. Lakeside was able to raise enough money for what they thought would be ample
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Bill Gates is the current Chairman and former CEO of Microsoft‚ a software company. He is an entrepreneur and very important to the world of business. He has influenced business by his entrepreneurship with Microsoft‚ his passion‚ and his philanthropic work. His single most major achievement was being at the top of the business world as the richest man‚ from 1995 to 2009 because of his entrepreneur skills. Bill Gates from a young age had always been into computers since a young age. He attended
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In this paper the chosen leader is Bill Gates. Bill Gates is an entrepreneur that co-founded Microsoft. Microsoft is the world’s largest software business. (Gates-web) Born in Seattle‚ Washington on October 28‚ 1955 Bill Gates showed interest in computer programming at the age of 13. Now Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world. In this paper the traits and characteristics of Bill Gates will be discussed. This paper will also show how Bill Gates has impacted society through his practice
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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
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Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world. For many years‚ he was the richest. Bill Gates would have still been the richest man on earth if he had not been as philanthropic as he has been in the last two decades. He has even got Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to pledge half their fortunes for charity. Bill Gates is a legend in his own right. Very few people have shaped up the latter half of the 20th century as he had done. Not everyone can aspire to be a Bill Gates and not many can
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family.[3][4] Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He is widely respected for his foresight and ambition.[5][6] He is also frequently criticized as having built Microsoft through unfair or unlawful business practices. Since amassing his fortune‚ Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors‚ donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation‚ founded
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accept their silicon masters‚”Bill Gates. The world’s youngest billionaire is the hard working‚ intelligent Bill Gates. This man independently started his own computer company and built it up to a 230 billion dollar empire. Bill Gates changed the way the world uses computers by building his company‚ Microsoft‚ from the ground up‚ enforcing that computer software is illegal to steal‚ and by making personal computers available for everyone to have in their own home. Bill Gates started his computer company
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Challenging the Status Quo of Technology in Business Outline Your Name Here Critical Thinking – COLL148 October 3‚ 2013 Julie Henning DeVry University [Technology to shape Office Efficiencies] Outline I. Introduction A. Getting in trouble as a teenager‚ led this innovative mind to reshape technological advances to better suit Business needs as society sees it today. B. Any Idea can be great; implementation of that idea takes careful planning and a smooth technological framework
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