Bill Gates‚ through his career of success‚ made a strong imprint on American society. As an adolescent‚ he attended in Lakeside School. At this establishment‚ Gates had the opportunity to interact with computers‚ blossoming his love for them. He quickly went from using them to experimenting with programming‚ developing recreational games such as tic-tac-toe. However‚ while attending Harvard‚ Gates took his skill to a new level when he‚ along with Paul Allen‚ formed a BASIC Program that would run
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experience that there are exceptions to rules‚ I believe that leadership style assessments are useful if they are coupled with other data‚ such as independent assessors. For example‚ this week I completed a self -assessment regarding my leadership style from our course textbook‚ Leadership Theory and Practice‚ which indicated I am strong in both task and relationship skills. While I mostly agree with this outcome after reflecting on my past leadership accomplishments and activities‚ I wondered if others who
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Leadership Styles Kaye Chipman DeVry University HIST415 Vietnamese History Professor Grimm Summer Session A 2013 May 19‚ 2013 Leadership Styles “Ho Chi Minh ’s Communist ideology was flexible enough to serve his purposes. In any case‚ he was never the doctrinaire‚ and always much more a political activist whose strong will was directed at the goal of the independence and unification of Vietnam.” (Kirkpatrick‚ 2006) Lecture and readings have taught us that Ho Chi Minh was charismatic and
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Bill Gates was unconventional in his youth but later made a great contribution to society. His contributions not only impacted society‚ but were also impacted his unconventionality. Bill gates was born in Seattle‚ WA on October 28‚ 1955. Gates went to Harvard College in 1973 and study computer. When he was younger his mother made him go to a private school name lakeside school‚ his mother name is Mary Maxwell Gates‚ his father name is William H. Gates Sr. Gates only had two sister and their names
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Lyudmila Grosheva‚ mitim. Essay on the topic: “Russian Organizational Leadership: Lessons from the Globe Study” Introduction The objective of this essay is to highlight a number of salient aspects of Russian culture and character to facilitate an informed understanding—in Russians as well as outsiders— of the way Russians approach leadership style and organizational practices. The need for this understanding is twofold: In the first place‚ this kind of awareness is important in light of the privatization
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Bill Gates Computer Genius Imagine the world without electronics. Our world would not be the same world as we know it today. Thanks to Bill Gates we have all of these modern day luxuries. Bill Gates changed the world with his company Microsoft. He introduced the world to software that anyone could use. He was the richest man in the world‚ and used his wealth to make a change that would impact the world. Gates left a legacy as the computer genius that everyone wished to be. The early years of
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Leadership Style: My leadership style according to the VARK questionnaire was an action-oriented. The action-oriented leadership involves taking action and leading by example. An action-oriented leader has a strong sense of immediacy‚ focusing on the task in hand and seeing it through to fruition. I agree completely with the results of the questionnaire. I have always been the type of person that would not ask anyone to do a job that I would not do regardless of how bad the job was. I want to be
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William Henry Gates the third was born on October 28th‚ 1955‚ Seattle Washington. His parents were William H. Gates‚ Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. Gates is an investor‚ computer programmer‚ and inventor. Gates dropped out of college and co-founded a company in 1976‚ called Microsoft with his good friend Paul Allen. This company later became the largest PC software company on earth. Gates had many positions during his career at Microsoft. He was CEO‚ chairman‚ and chief software architect. Microsoft
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After reading the five different articles‚ the profile of the person whose style of leadership I most identify with and admire is Chamath Palihapitiya. The main reason that I chose Mr. Palihapitiya was because he is similar to me in that he is a go-getter. He started working at Burger King and with perseverance and grit‚ he moved up the ladder to better jobs. In baseball and school‚ I am usually slide under the radar‚ but eventually achieve success because of hard work and determination. Mr. Palihapitiya
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leaders within different organizations‚ I have discovered that they play very different roles. Often the lines of effective management and effective leadership get blurred. Though there is in fact some overlap between the two roles‚ they actually draw on different‚ and sometimes contradictory‚ qualities. Here is how management and leadership styles differ across several categories such as personality‚ goals‚ strategy‚ qualifications and experience‚ and relationship to employees. When it comes to
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