Bill Gates' Transformational Leadership Style: A Critical Analysis

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Business Leader : Bill Gates

The presentation will cover:
Weaknesses of Bill Gates leadership style

Bill Gates Transformational
leadership style
Bill Gates is an American business magnate
or business leader who mainly focuses on
using transformational leadership style for
making greater influence on his team
members or employees.
As per this leadership style, Bill Gates
mainly focuses to support and encourage
individual by making clear communication
with them so that they can contribute their
knowledge, skills and efforts in
accomplishing the specific goal.

Weaknesses of Bill Gates
Transformational leadership style
Arrogance
Arrogant leader such as Bill Gates feel that he is
smartest in the workplace and always right in
every situation.
It has identified that Bill Gates always ignore
others opinions and ideas and make argument
with their team members to prove him right and
implement the idea that he feels good.
This creates dissatisfaction among the team
members and reduces their moral and
confidence as their opinions and ideas are not
valued in the workplace.

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Conflict avoidance
 Bill Gates mainly focuses to encourage, guide and enable
team members to accomplish the specific mission or goal
of the business.
 The transformational leadership style of the Bill Gates
avoids this conflict between the team members that
create the negative environment at the workplace.
 This also reduces the work efficiency, performance and
productivity of the team members and hence hinder the
accomplishment of the specific business goal effectively
and efficiently.
 Bill Gates has to change this attitude and focus more to
resolve the conflicts between team members that will
generate more positive outcome.

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Result-Driven
While adopting and using the transformational leadership
style, Bill Gates only focuses to achieve the specific goal
that he assigned to himself as well as his team members.
He ignores the logical steps and process for accomplishing
the goal while using the transformational leadership style
that sometime generates the negative outcome.
Therefore, it is essential for the Bill Gates to more focus on
using logical ideas, process and procedures to accomplish
the specific goal instead of illogically taking actions.

References
Mittal, R., 2015. Charismatic and
transformational leadership styles: A cross-
cultural perspective. International Journal of
Business and Management, 10(3), p.26.
Nanjundeswaraswamy, T.S. and Swamy,
D.R., 2014. Leadership styles. Advances in
management, 7(2), p.57.

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