Bill Gates: Leader and Role Model William Cook COLL/148 August 14‚ 2011 Barbara Goldberg Bill Gates is an effective leader and leadership role model and he is my choice for a role a model. Bill Gates has demonstrated and employed good leadership skills to be a successful business man. He has also demonstrated why he is a good role model for those who want to become leaders themselves. I believe that I share many of the leadership traits with Bill Gates and that those traits will help me in
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Introduction A. My paper is about the contributions Bill Gates has made to the computer industry. B. Bill Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revelation. He is a computer programmer and a philanthropist. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world‚ becoming a billionaire before the age of 32. C. This paper gives the purpose of being informative to my audience about the life and accomplishments of Bill Gates. D. Bill Gates has a great influence over me because he came
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Bill Gates By: Cami Tucker From a functionalist perspective Bill Gates served as a purpose in life developing Microsoft to help out people with their businesses and person life. A functionalist would believe that society would depend on Microsoft and that is why it would have needed to be created. I believe highly that Bill Gates was mostly a functionalist. From a conflict perspective Bill Gates would have looked at the pros and cons of his software. In this situation the pros outweighed the
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confidence that comes about from the ambitions others have‚ especially the ones within me. Confidence and certainty are similar in multiple ways. You must be confident to be certain and certain to be confident. A great example in my opinion would be Bill Gates. Of course being the wealthiest man in the world is a great benefit‚ but the adversity he faced was enormous. A person such as him had to be certain that what he wanted to do would be tremendously successful. He was certain enough that he dropped
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William H. Gates (1955- ) may be the greatest philanthropist of our time‚ if the sheer sum of wealth donated to philanthropic causes is the measure. By 2002‚ Gates had given sixty percent of his wealth to charity and contends that‚ over his lifetime‚ the total will be ninety-five percent. He is viewed as the twenty-first century’s Rockefeller or Carnegie. He earned his wealth as co-founder (with friend Paul Allen) and chief executive officer of Microsoft (a major software company and one of the largest
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STARBUCKS COFFEE CORPORATION SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY STRATEGY JJT2 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TASK 1 Unknown Introduction Starbucks Coffee Corporation is a world renowned Fortune 500 company headquarter in Seattle‚ Washington USA. It was founded in 1971 with the sole mission to bring the unique Italian coffee experience to the masses. Its CEO Howard Shultz has successfully created a company brand where customers identify its coffee to a distinctive and premium experience. Starbucks Coffee
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an unfair situation happens to them. Bill Gates‚ the richest man on Earth whose net worth is 84.9 Billion Dollars‚ was a person who overcame many challenges and difficulties(gatesnotes‚com). He is the founder of the biggest software company in the world‚ Microsoft‚ and is one of the biggest tech tyrants in the world. He is also one of the biggest donators in the world‚ in which he donated an enormous ton of money of about 28 Billion(gatesnotes.com). Bill Gates was a man who overcame difficulties in
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people that make difference. Bill Gates has made a huge difference in today’s world; he is an extremely successful entrepreneur‚ an active philanthropist‚ and a very motivated person in general. With this motivation he has and will accomplish anything he puts his mind to. He was CEO of Microsoft and became the richest man in the world. He also created one of the most credible and generous charitable organization in the world. As a positive influence on today’s world‚ Bill Gates has proven himself as person
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charity. 2. Bill Gates (USA) - $56 billion‚ Microsoft Sensing the start of a personal computer revolution‚ Gates‚ 55‚ dropped out of Harvard University in 1975 to start Microsoft and pursue a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. Microsoft went public in 1986 and by the next year‚ the soaring stock made Gates‚ at age 31‚ the youngest self-made billionaire. In 2008 he stepped down from what is now the world’s largest software firm to work at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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References: Andrzej‚ Huczynski A.‚ and Buchanan A. David. Organizational Behaviour. 6th. Harlow‚ Essex: Pearson Education Limited‚ 2007. Aswathappa‚ K. Organisational Behaviour. Mumbai: Global Media‚ 2009. Bill Gates. The Biography Channel. n.d. http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520 (accessed March 7‚ 2013). Carpenter‚ et al. Flat World Knowledge. March 2009. http://www.web-books.com/eLibrary/NC/B0/B58/085MB58.html (accessed March 9‚ 2013). David‚ Weidner. Successful CEOs Don ’t Have
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