The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a foundation that supports other organizations who share its guiding belief that every life has equal value. Located in Seattle‚ Washington‚ the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have an asset trust endowment of 36.2 billion dollars as of September 30‚ 2012. It supports grantees in all 50 states and 100 countries internationally in areas of global development‚ global health‚ United States program‚ and a smaller charitable support initiative sector. Bill Gates‚ Melinda
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Participative Leadership and Delegation Deborah Clarke Philadelphia University Many people complain about their jobs. They feel that they have no say in what they do. They are given assignments and are expected to follow orders without question. For some people however‚ this isn’t the case. Some companies’ practice a management style called Participative management. Participative management “is a managerial style that invites input from employees on all company
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Out of many successful business entrepreneurs I found Bill Gates‚ the richest men in America quite fascinating and the endeavors he has taken to effect the social change is simply marvellous. I was very curious to know about the life history of Bill Gates. This was also one of the main reason to choose this text. Simply from his childhood he was attracted towards computer and later he became the world’s largest software business Microsoft owner and in the process he came to be one of the richest
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pave the way for the future. Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft‚ one of the largest software companies of our generation. While Gates is most notable for founding Microsoft‚ he has made quite the philanthropic impact on healthcare‚ education‚ and the technology industry to name a few. Nowadays‚ he works full time at his charitable foundation‚ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation‚ in order tackle local and global issues through collaboration and innovation. Bill Gates possesses the traits necessary
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Silicon Valley Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013 Bill Gates Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates the third on the 28th of October ‚1955 to his parents Mary Gates‚ who was a professor and businesswoman and William Gates II‚ who was a prominent lawyer of his time (Summers). Bill was enrolled in the prestigious Lakeside School of Seattle in 1967 because he showed signs of intelligence and ambition. This school was the first place Bill worked with computers. He and a few other students spent
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Introduction Participative (or participatory) management‚ otherwise known as employee involvement or participative decision making‚ encourages the involvement of stakeholders at all levels of an organization in the analysis of problems‚ development of strategies‚ and implementation of solutions. Employees are invited to share in the decision-making process of the firm by participating in activities such as setting goals‚ determining work schedules‚ and making suggestions. Other forms of participative management
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family Conversation with the topic "The Infamous Bill Gates". A great amount of information most likely was shared about Bill’s trial to Achievement during these dinner table talks. While fanaticizing about the material items that I would purchase with Bill’s fortune‚ and how happy they would make me‚ I realized I had no idea what happened for bill to get where he was. I started researching With the question "What is the history of Microsoft?" Bill Gates began using the word Microsoft in November of
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BENSON Bill Gates and Steve Jobs When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer‚ it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh‚ it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack’s Model 100‚ the first truly portable computer… Thanks to that business (and more)‚ Gates… has become America’s software tycoon.1 — 1984 Time article‚ “Bill Gates: A Hard-Core Technoid” Jobs is‚ in a sense‚ the anti-Gates: a master
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Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates: both incredibly rich‚ incredibly generous (or so it appears) men from two differing time periods.Both men were self-made and owed their wealth to much hard work‚ and both were distinguished figures during their times. Furthermore‚ both utilized their wealth to perpetuate meaningful social change rather than reforming society altogether. Despite the similarities they share‚ the two men originated from relatively different backgrounds and did their benefacting through
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if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act”‚ once said William Henry Gates III. Gates is an innovator‚ genius‚ philanthropist‚ and entrepreneur; he has made a huge impact on our society. The ideas he put into his projects and the choices he made all led up to the creation of Microsoft‚ and the development of the personal computer. Gates has been considered one of the wealthiest men of all time‚ and without a doubt has changed the world with the modifications
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