Leadership and Achievements of Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Bill Gates
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Achievements..................................................................................................................................2
Challenges faced by Bill gates.........................................................................................................2
Management and leadership............................................................................................................2
Stakeholders and followers..............................................................................................................3
Powers used and types of leadership skills......................................................................................3
Ethics...............................................................................................................................................4
Motivational theories.......................................................................................................................6
Communication................................................................................................................................6
Decisions making.............................................................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
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Bill Gates
Introduction
In this paper, the discussion will be made on one of the famous leader “Bill Gates”. William
Henry Gates is the American Business Magnate, investor, author and also humanitarian. He is
known as the founder of Microsoft Corporation. It can be analyzed that he was born on 28
October 1955 in Seattle, Washington United States. It can be said that Bill Gates is one of the
influential person and also richest person in the world. Presently, he has been retired to work full
time at Microsoft and has focused on working with the charitable foundation “The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation”. Bill Gates established the Microsoft Company in 1976 and he also
contracted with Micro Instrumentation and telemetry systems. In 1990 the company released the
first version of Windows. The main aim of the Bill Gates was to diversify the business of
Microsoft. Bill Gates married to Melinda French in 1992 and they have now three children. The
paper will emphasize on the leadership pattern of Bill Gates (Griffith, Connelly, Thiel &
Johnson, 2015).
Achievements
In 2002, Bill and Melinda Gates achieved the Jefferson Award for the greatest public service.
The Bill Gates also received the Bower Award for the Business leadership from the FRANKLIN
INSTITUTE IN 2010 and it was recognized at Microsoft. Bill and Melinda received the third
biggest civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2015. So, it can be stated that the leader achieved
success in his life time journey (Mauri, 2017).
Challenges faced by Bill gates
One of the challenges relates with his private elementary school in which he does not have the
money for the computers as it was expensive. The next challenge faced by Bill Gates is
concerned with his parents. It has been noted that his the parents was not happy and when he
said that he wanted to drop the year in the college, his parents didn’t accept this deal. It took
approx 1 year to convince his parents and to start a company in New Mexico (Smith, 2015).
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