Running head: BILL GATES: A LEADER IN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY Bill Gates: A Leader in Innovative Technology Richardo Coccia Baker College MGT 451R: Management Styles and Strategies Tim Martin July 8‚ 2008 Abstract The Microsoft Corporation has been a giant in the software industry for over three decades. The company’s founders‚ Bill Gates and Paul Allen‚ put together an operating system for the computer world that ultimately captured the attention of every one on earth. However‚ it was
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What is Leadership? It means influencing‚ motivating and enabling other employees to contribute their best towards the effectiveness and success of the organization. It’s not only motivating and influencing individual but the goals can only be attained by mutual cooperation and cohesive behavior. Leadership has been studied since civilization but it was not given that much important like it’s given in today’s scenario. Leadership is not any type of quality but it’s an individual behavior. There
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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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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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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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LEADERSHIP THEORIES. 1. "Great Man" Theories: Have you ever heard someone described as "born to lead?" According to this point of view‚ great leaders are simply born with the necessary internal characteristics such as charisma‚ confidence‚ intelligence‚ and social skills that make them natural-born leaders. Great man theories assume that the capacity for leadership is inherent – that great leaders are born‚ not made. These theories often portray great leaders as heroic‚ mythic and destined to
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Leadership What exactly makes a great leader? Do certain personality traits make people better-suited to leadership roles‚ or do characteristics of the situation make it more likely that certain people will take charge? When we look at the leaders around us – be it our employer or the President – we might find ourselves wondering exactly why these individuals excel in such positions. People have long been interested in leadership throughout human history‚ but it has only been relatively recently
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STARTING POINT: Steve Jobs‚ Synchronicity‚ Connecting the Dots & Trust Answer these questions before you watch the video: a) How do you think we can achieve success in life? b) Do you consider academic life the best way for a promising future? c) “We learn when we fail” Comment on this sentence. ORAL DISCUSSION Question #1. How has chance played a role in your very existence? When you ponder this question you literally become free. I’m sure you recognize you had no responsibility in the matter
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“Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” (Northouse‚ 2012). The learner had to identify and compare four theories of leadership. The theories selected to analyze by the learner are contingency‚ behavioral‚ transformation‚ and transactional. For a better understanding of how these theories will fit into her desired line of work‚ these theories must first be defined. According to Northouse (2012)‚ “Contingency Theory is a leader-matched
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Ingvar Kamprad and Steve Jobs are two people that have set their footmark forever on this planet. Ingvar Kamprad is founder of the great furniture empire‚ IKEA. Steve Jobs is best known as one of the co-founders of Apple‚ the most valuable company on earth. Both these business gurus are huge role models of mine and have definitely changed my way of thinking in several ways. Mr. Kamprad could be any 85-year-old white man with his faded coat‚ tinted prescription glasses and scuffed shoes; he
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