Leadership in Business

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Essay on leadership 1
Bill Gates is an American author, business magnate, investor and philanthropist and he born
on 28 October 1955. Bill gates is one of the most inspirational and charismatic leader across
the whole world. He is known as richest person in the whole world. He has received various
awards in his life such as Bower award for leadership in business, National medal of
innovation and technology and Mary Woodard award for the Public services. Bill Gates is the
only person behind the success of Microsoft as well as software industry across worldwide
because he founded this software in 1975 and which has become largest software worldwide.
Today, Microsoft is one of the successful software across the whole world due to the
leadership qualities of Bill Gates (Mumford, Partlow and Medeiros, 2013).
I choose Bill Gates as a leader because of his effective leadership qualities and other reasons
such as:
1. Bill Gates always focuses on one goal and also asks to their team members to focus
on specific goal. He only focused on the software industry.
2. Leader should have clear through about what are their goals. Bill Gates dreamt big
and tries to achieve his objectives with clear through.
3. He is a most passionate person for software.
4. A leader should always ready to learn new knowledge and new things. Bill Gates still
always ready to learn from every person.
5. He always show care towards their team members.
6. He is the richest person in the whole world and as a leader he inspired billion of
people from his work and leadership quality.
7. He won various awards and achievement in his life as a leader.
Overview of the leader –
Leadership play an essential role for every organization because it helps them in achieiving
their objectives and goals. Leadership refers to the leading a team or group of people or an
organisation. In other words, leadership means implementing planning or strategies,
motivating, helping the people, providing direction and solving the conflicts between
members of the team, so this will help in achieving organizational goals. Leader is one of the
factors of leadership. Leader refers as a person who guides their employees. Good leader
should have essential qualities such as honesty, trust, confidence, communication skills, good
convincing power, passionate, influencing skills, accountability and ability to take good
decisions for their team. (Pavur, 2012). Bill Gates follows autocratic leadership style of

Essay on leadership 2
management within the organization to lead their team members. He also used other
leadership style as per the situations within the organization.
Leadership traits, qualities, motives and characteristics of Bill gates –
1. Focus: A good leader focus on one particular thing then only he can get success. Bill
Gates also focuses on the only one thing which is Microsoft software then he makes it
success in the whole world.
2. Big picture: He has a big picture as he always think practically before setting goals
and to achieve his goals and objectives. He followed step based process to achieve his
goals.
3. Creativity: He believes in doing creative and innovative thing, so he also encourages
their team members to embrace creativity.
4. Caring: He is a most caring person towards his team members or any other person
even when he is world’s richest person.
5. Passionate: He is also passionate person, so because of this he succeeds in his life.
6. Growing and learning: Bill Gates also ready to learn new things and new knowledge
from everyone. He did lot of efforts to improve his communication skills and gain
more knowledge.
7. Arrogance: Bill Gates also an arrogant person as he follow autocratic leadership style
for leading their team members.
8. Avoidance of conflicts: Bill Gates tries to avoid conflict, which was arisen between
their team members (Hedayati, 2014).
Roles and responsibilities of Bill Gates as a leader –
1. Bill Gates is responsible to managing the Microsoft and taking all key decisions
related to achievement of organizational goals and objectives and the decisions which
can benefit to the organization.
2. He also plan an essential role in the technical development related to new product
within the organization.
3. Bill Gates also attend various meeting with their customers and he also connected
with his employees through Emails and face to face communication sessions.
4. His responsibility also includes policy related to global technology, diversity of
business incubation as well as technical activities (Rampton, 2016).