A Comparative Analysis of Leadership: Trump and Gates

This essay provides a comparative analysis of the leadership styles of Donald Trump and Bill Gates. It begins by highlighting the distinct approaches of each leader, with Trump's "Me Centric" style contrasted with Gates' "Authoritarian" style. The essay delves into a critical analysis of Trump's leadership, assessing his authenticity, collaboration, ownership, and vision. Similarly, it examines Gates' leadership through the lenses of focus, creativity, caring, education, passion, and big-picture thinking. The analysis draws on various leadership theories and provides a balanced evaluation of each leader's strengths and weaknesses, supported by references to academic sources.

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LEADERSHIP OF DONALD TRUMP AND BILL GATES
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Contents
a) Leadership of Donald Trump and Bill Gates.........................................................................2
b) Effective leader......................................................................................................................2
c) Critical analysis of Donald trump leadership skills...............................................................3
Authenticity:...........................................................................................................................3
Collaboration:.........................................................................................................................3
Ownership:.............................................................................................................................3
Vision:....................................................................................................................................4
Critical analysis of Bill Gates leadership skills..........................................................................4
Focus:.....................................................................................................................................4
Creativity:...............................................................................................................................4
Caring:....................................................................................................................................4
Education:..............................................................................................................................4
Passionate:..............................................................................................................................5
Big picture:.............................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES.............................................................................................................................6

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a) Leadership of Donald Trump and Bill Gates
Business leadership is something that can be linked to performance leadership; it does
not only focus on profit. Leadership requires traits and skills that go far beyond the
management duties. In order to be an effective leader, one has to manage all the resources of
the firm or the organization (Morgeson, DeRue, & Karam, 2010)
Donald Trump and Bill gates have different leadership styles. The president of United
States of America is Donald Trump and he has a “Me Centric” leadership approach. Donald
Trump takes decisions thinking about his benefit and not the country’s benefit. Usually “Me
Centric” leaders do not care about what is happening to the followers and they prioritize
things according to themselves. On the other hand, Bill gates the CEO of Microsoft and had
an “Authoritarian style” of leadership (Müller, & Turner, 2010). This style of leadership is
something that makes Bill gates an innovative and conducive leader and one who controls all
the aspects that hinder the performance of the followers. This type of leadership is very useful
as it helps in emergency situations when quick decisions are required.
b) Effective leader
Bill gates are a more effective leader as care for the follower. In relation to the life of
Bill Gates, Humanitarianism and Philanthropy are two leadership roles that are very
important. In order to make sure the sustainability practices for the followers he originated

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Bill and Melinda Gates Groups with his spouse; an association dedicated to enhancing health
issues globally as well as saving lives (Grint, Jones, & Holt, 2016).
Bill gate was a vision oriented leader. Microsoft was potential enough to compete its
rivals because Bill gates take out every objective proactively and this was the reason that he
always one step ahead of his competitors because he did not compromise on his dreams. Bill
gates also use to value time; one of the most famous quotes by gates is “no matter how much
money you have, you can’t buy more time”. This means that Bill gates focused on each and
every minute and prioritized his activities accordingly. Bill gates used to believe in proper
planning of activities and leadership commitments
c) Critical analysis of Donald trump leadership skills
Authenticity: Trump is an authentic leader as he means what he says even if it is
unacceptable to the people. Even when trump uses twitter he does back off while sharing his
views whether the audience reading it like it or not. Something’s can actually get hurt by his
followers and it can also change the future of politics.
Collaboration: Trump is not a collaborator on an international stage as he disagrees with
the followers. There are various examples of this- He imposed trade tariff son china and EU,
apart from this the white house has existed into a flux from the time he has moved to the oval
office due to firing of officers. Also his bond with Emmanuel Macron and his efforts to get
North Korea as a collaborator came out to be really poor. Collaboration is not trumps priority
as a leader (Lussier, & Achua, 2015).
Ownership: One of the biggest problems with Trump is that he does not allow anyone else
to take leadership. Apart from criticizing Barack Obama for the executive orders, Trump

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signed 100 commands on his first day. He also distanced himself from the advisors who did
not share the same point of view as his. For example The formerly chief economic advisor
i.e. Gary Cohn, who leave after he failed to persuade Trump to leave his plan to levy various
tariffs related to aluminium and steel (Uhl-Bien, 2011).
Vision: Trump does not lack a vision, although trumps vision is “America First” which
basically means jobs for America, Trade deficit of U.S. , illegal migration crackdown, U.S.
defence Budget.
Overall the leadership of Trump is under the four dimensions of leadership. His one
of the best strength or asset is authenticity and vision. He is week in ownership due to taking
a lot of it and he is also week in collaboration as he is a non- starter.
Critical analysis of Bill Gates leadership skills
Focus: Bill Gates believed in wisdom and he focused on one thing which he was best in,
software and he made the top out of it. He ran hard and he made his place in the industry, one
of his top priorities was executing at the top.
Creativity: Bill gates use to encourage himself and his people to embrace creativity. Bill
gates focus on empowering because individual performance of people helps in creating new
and opportunities. Various people trailed him due to his charisma and various others followed
him as they knew that he can transform them into good leaders.
Caring: In the world, Bill Gates is one of the richest people but he is also a prolific
contributor as he along with Warren Buffet assured to contribute majority of their wealth. His
foundation donated over 28 billion dollars (McCleskey, 2014). He shows this caring attitude
in the workplace as well as he makes sure that people achieve success and get what they
want.

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Education: Bill Gates was a dropout from school, but he still believed that education is a
lifelong process and everyone learns something new every day. After founding Microsoft,
Bill gates still worked hard on his communication skills and public speaking skills.
Passionate: In every work and actions towards the company, Bill Gates put a lot of efforts
and love. He does everything from his heart and he is very passionate about his work. Bill
gates believe that if something is worth undertaking then it should be done at one’s best
ability (Ayman, & Korabik, 2010).
Big picture: Bill gate believes in setting goals by keeping bigger picture in mind in spite of
making a vision that is at distant. Bill gates focus on step by step method in order to reach the
desired goals or vision.

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Müller, R., & Turner, R. (2010). Leadership competency profiles of successful project
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