Business @ the Speed of Thought BILL GATES Level 6 Retold by Stephen Bryant Edited by Mike Dean Consultant Editor: David Evans Scries Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter Contents Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate‚ Harlow‚ Essex CM20 2JE‚ England and Associated Companies throughout the world. ISDN 0 582 34300 3 First published in the USA by Warner Books‚ a Time Warner Company 1999 This edition first published 2001 Original copyright ©William H. Gates‚ III‚ 1999 Text copyright Penguin
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THE REAL LEADERSHIP 14 LESSONS OF STEVE JOBS – Walter Isaacson * “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do” * Helped transform 6 industries: * Personal computing * Animated movies * Music * Phones * Tablet computing * Retail stores * Digital publishing * “Making an enduring company‚ he said‚ was both far harder and more important than making a great product” 1. FOCUS * “Deciding what not to do
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Steve Jobs’ stories create a persona for himself. He makes himself out to be an individual who carries on even in the tenebrous of times and who has overcome numerous snags when things didn’t look great. He is trying to tell the audience that failure can at times be great; these are paramount bits of his persona to create. He is known as a very successful man. Creating this persona permits him to unite with audience considerably more. Even though he is a famous person‚ he tried to make himself appear
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you think Bill and Melinda Gate’s personality traits are for each of the Big Five dimensions? Compare the two. Big Five Dimensions * Surgency: leadership & extraversion traits * Agreeableness: traits related to getting along with people * Adjustment: traits related to emotional stability * Conscientiousness: traits related to achievement * Openness to experience: being willing to change and try new things Comparing (Xem cái bảng trong slide) * Bill Gates * Melinda
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morning. When I entered my English class we were assigned a task to analyze a speech‚ not my favorite writing exercise. A paper titled‚ Stanford University Commencing Speech 2005 by Steve Jobs was placed on each desk. The name rang a bell‚ I knew of his connections with Apple and squabbles with supposed rival Bill Gates but nothing else. Ignorance always led me to think that millionaires like him either had very rich parents‚ attended one of the best colleges or were some enhanced being. My prospects
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The Oprah Effect Summary: “The Oprah Effect’ is article written by Carmen Wong Ulrich‚ the $1.4 billion woman influences pop culture‚ creates stars‚ and drivers entire industries. The Oprah Show is the most popular source of reality television viewed by many supporting fans. She broadcasts the topic of the days show and gives the audience a tease about the next guest: Our next guest has overcome extraordinary odds. Stay tuned; commercial break. Oprah effect introduces her leadership characteristics
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Bill Gates: One of America’s Greatest. Bill Gates was one of the most creative and smartest people in the world. His vision of the future and ideas about changing the technology and making the world better changed the world. Bill Gates achieved the American Dream because his ideas about software changed the world‚ he worked hard to make his ideas become reality despite that he was already wealthy‚ and he founded Microsoft which is one of the biggest tech companies in our world today. William Henry
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CASE 1: Warren Buffett From Warren Buffett’s perspective‚ “intrinsic value is assessed as the present value of future expected performance” (Bruner‚ Eades‚ & Schill‚ 2010): in order to determine whether the investment is worth and is therefore fairly operating on the principle of achieving value for this investment. The displays volatility in earning corresponding to the fluctuation of prices will give investors the cheapest price when the investment shown by the discounted-flows-of-cash calculation
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Steve Jobs: An Anomaly in Business Leadership Introduction Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24‚ 1955 – October 5‚ 2011) was an American entrepreneur and inventor‚ best known as the co-founder‚ chairman‚ and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple‚ he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields‚ transforming one industry after another‚ from computers and smartphones to music and animated
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Steve Jobs Early Life Steve Jobs was born on February 24‚ 1955‚ in the city of San Francisco. His biological parents‚ Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali—a Syrian Muslim graduate student who became a political science professor. Job’s biological sister‚ the novelist Mona Simpson . Job was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View‚ Santa Clara County‚ later to be known as Silicon Valley‚ California . They named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter‚ who they
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