Bill Gates – Strategic Thinker & Leader? Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to explore the published work on strategic leadership in order to develop an inventory of qualities‚ skills and behaviours that define and explain the concept of strategic leadership. A full review of literature on this topic aims to shed light on this definition. Having discussed and defined this concept the report will then focus on Bill Gates‚ former CEO of the Microsoft Corporation‚ with the aim of
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to their advantage to be able to make it in the business world. One such entrepreneur who made an impact using the free enterprise system would be Steve Jobs. The free enterprise system made him able to compete against other companies to see who’s inventions were better. It was this that made him one of the most successful business men in the world. Jobs started his business all from the garage of his home. He had to invest in his own company and be able to create ideas that would lead him to think
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Steve Jobs As a Leader By Mohammad Aman Nawabi MBA Student 2013 T ABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................. 2 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 3 LEADERSHIP STYLES ............................................................................................... 3 AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE ......................
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able to explain and predict others’ behavior and job performance. Between‚ the big five model of personality is the most widely accepted way to classify personalities that has been proved by researchers. The big five model of personality categories traits into the dimensions of surgency‚ agreeableness‚ adjustment‚ conscientiousness‚ and openness to experience. Surgency consist of leadership and extraversion traits. The leader of Apple Inc.‚ Steve Jobs is a person in high surgency. People with high
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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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Steve Jobs was a distinguished industrial designer‚ American entrepreneur‚ inventor‚ and businessperson. He was born in San Francisco in the year 1960s. Due to his vast skills in managing businesses‚ he was the chief executive officer in Apple Inc.‚ a member of the board in Walt Disney Company and a CEO in the Pixar Company‚ before he died. Additionally‚ he also founded a company known as NeXT that specialized in computers for businesses markets and institutions of high education. Steve was a student
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Q: Steve Jobs‚ the founder of Apple‚ was asked to come back as Chief Executive in 1997 when the business was making a loss. Jobs was appointed to provide a clearer vision for the business and to improve its profitability. How easy is it for a Chief Executive to change a struggling business into a more successful one? Justify your answer with reference to Apple and/or other organisations you know. A: There have been many different companies in the past which have suffered from internal / external
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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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Especially that nowadays we cannot live without luxuries‚ and electronic devices have become an addiction to almost the whole world. Steve jobs‚ a great man who has a great role in moving smart phone to a new era by inventing iphone‚ a smart phone from a completely new kind. he also invented ipad‚ a new kind of tablet computer‚ which was a tough act to follow. Steve Jobs introduced iPhone at first to the world. It blew away their minds. Everyone wants to buy it—despite its expensive price--‚ and every
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Dominique McCraven Public Speaking 9:00am Professor Dr. Dupree Above other companies why do people chose apple products? Topic: Steve Jobs and Apple General Purpose: Explain the distinction of Apple products. Specific Purpose: To inform the general public of the reasons why consumers predominantly prefer to use Apple products rather than competing corporations’ products. Thesis Statement: The Apple Corporation exceeds competing companies in product sales because of the company’s
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