Leadership Style of Bill Gates

This presentation explores the leadership style of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. It discusses his traits, weaknesses, and the impact of his leadership on the company. The presentation also covers the autocratic and delegate styles of leadership that Gates employed. Overall, it provides insights into the leadership approach of one of the most successful leaders in the world.

Leadership
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Table of Content
 Introduction
 Bill Gates leadership style
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
Bill Gates was and an author, investor, humanitarian, etc.,
and popularly known as the founder of Microsoft Firm, born
on 28 October, 1955. The pattern of explicit and implicit
actions which is performed by a leader is a leadership style.
This is the approach of motivating employees and executing
plans and provide direction to the workers.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates leadership style
 He has a desire towards his creativity in oneself and rest of
the team.
 Being an transformational leader, encouragement and
support is provided as an individual instead of focusing on
the resources which are required by team.

Leadership
The leadership style of Bill Gates is one that would be included in
the descriptions of a transformational leaders. This is because of
his habits which he followed has a strong vision, and he was
very passionate towards his work.

Traits of the Bill Gates Leadership Style
 Focused
 Creativity
 Caring
 Education
 Passionate

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Focused – The people thinks that they can be a leader if they have
the knowledge of lots of things, but on the other hand Bill Gates
focuses on the one thing on which he was good and had mastery
on that, which was software.
Creativity – Instead of staying in comfort zone, Bill Gates always
encourage and motivate himself and his staff members.

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Caring - Being one of the richest man in the world, then also
Bill Gates is having very caring attitude. In 2010, Gates
promised to the peoples to donate $28 billion to his foundation
with the goal of giving away $90 billion on time.
Education – After dropping the education, the Bill Gates does
not mean to ignore the education. After this also he find that
what the good education provide to us.

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Passionate – Bill Gates was very passionate towards his work,
because when something is worth doing then it is worth of his
money, time and energy. His passion on the products of
Microsoft was evident. From a Thank you note to innovating
an emergent product, gates follow all the things with
passionate.

Weaknesses of the Bill Gates Leadership
Style
Arrogance – If a person is very skilled and knowledgable
passionate worker then he must have arrogance.
Conflict Avoidance – As Bill gates is an transformational
leader, he also want that each employee should on achieving the
same goal.

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Results- Driven – To achieve the better results and positive
outcomes, Bill gates was so focused and passionate towards
his work and always follow some approaches, theories, and
work with a procedure, and also motivate the team.

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By all the traits and weaknesses of Bill Gates leadership style, it
has been analysed that , being a leader like Gates is not so easy
as it seems. The one as a leader should be able to take risks, and
should have the ability to create a workplace into a innovative
and creative place so that every employee should take interest to
perform their task.

Leadership Style of Bill Gates
Autocratic Style : According to Bill gates, the control and
command should be basic. Gates has obsession with checking up
and with detail.
Delegate Style : In this style of leadership, Bill gates talks about
the brightest talent, in which it has focused on the recruitment
and retention of the best and highly skilled talented candidates in
the industry of software.

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While hiring the applicants, Gates looks and consider the
following things like the applicants must be able to grab new
knowledge quickly and has the ability to ask questions and
should have the proper communication and presentation skills.

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Transformational leadership is the theory of leadership, where
all the leaders works with a team to create vision to guide the
employees, to motivate and encourage them, along with this to
identify the required change and implementing or executing
the change in placement or arrangement with the committed
members of a team.

CONCLUSION
From the above research, it has been concluded that Bill Gates was
one of the superior leaders ever alive and also the second richest
man in all over the world, which was leading the Microsoft, and
famous that by the most popular computer software in all over
the world.

References
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libraries through leadership training.
Mauri, T., 2017. Why leadership styles matter. Strategic Direction.
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Menzel, D. C., 2015. Leadership in Public Administration: Creative
and/or Ethical?. Public Integrity. 17(4). pp.315-318.
Northouse, P. G., 2017. Introduction to leadership: Concepts and
practice. Sage Publications.

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