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A Study On: Leadership - The Bill Gates Way

Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft who demonstrated strong leadership. He was born in 1955 and co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen. Some key aspects of Gates' leadership included making strategic product decisions, organizing work into small teams, and holding regular review meetings. He also focused on developing new technologies and creating markets for them. Gates promoted an informal culture and decentralized decision making at Microsoft while acting as an arbitrator. Though some criticize that Microsoft was not innovative and Gates focused too much power, Gates demonstrated vision, leadership, and philanthropy in building Microsoft into a dominant company in the software industry.

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A Study On: Leadership - The Bill Gates Way

Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft who demonstrated strong leadership. He was born in 1955 and co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen. Some key aspects of Gates' leadership included making strategic product decisions, organizing work into small teams, and holding regular review meetings. He also focused on developing new technologies and creating markets for them. Gates promoted an informal culture and decentralized decision making at Microsoft while acting as an arbitrator. Though some criticize that Microsoft was not innovative and Gates focused too much power, Gates demonstrated vision, leadership, and philanthropy in building Microsoft into a dominant company in the software industry.

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A STUDY ON

LEADERSHIP -THE BILL GATES WAY

SUBMITTED BY:
NEHAL MEHTA
SUNIL TIWARI
KARTIK JOSHI
SANDEEP MISHRA
ABHINAV OJHA
MANOJ SHARMA

SUBMITTED TO:
MISS SEEMA SANT

BACKGROUND NOTE

Born

: October 28, 1955 Seattle, Washington, US

Father

: William Henry Gates II (lawyer)

Mother

: Mary Gates (School Teacher)

Residence

: United States

Excellence: Maths & Science


Alma mater: Harvard University
Occupation: Chairman of Microsoft
Enrolled

: Lakeside preparatory school at age of 12

YEARS BEFORE MICROSOFT

1968: Formation of Lakeside programmers group.


1971: Opportunity from (ISI) to develop program to manage
payroll system. Royalties were given.
1972: Started their own company.Traf-O-Data. It existed until
Gates entry into the college. In senior years Gates & Allen got
opportunity from TRW to eliminate worms in computer.
1973: Gates & Allen got job in Honeywell.
1974: Duo Entered into agreement with MITS for purchasing right
to distribute BASIC
YEARS AFTER MICROSOFT
1975: Gates & Allen formed their own company MICROSOFT in
April.
1977: Gates released version of FORTRAN language for
microcomputers.
1978: Duo introduced a version of COBAL. Around this time
Microsoft emerged as market leader.
1979: Microsoft develop new version of BASIC. Sales had crossed
1 Million copies which generated
revenue of more than US$ 2.5
million.
1981: 35% of employee were working for IBM project

KEY TO SUCCESS..

Strategic Decision regarding Product development.


Division of work in small team.
Review meetings for project every three months.
Development of Customer feedback Loop. In this program
inputs are taken from customer.
Gates created an End user program in 1980.
Gates not only focused on developing new technology but also
created market for it. For Eg CD ROM

RIGHT PERSON ON RIGHT JOB..


Talented individual were invited to work for his company.
Formula for hiring employee is n-1.where n was number of people
required.
Promotion of an informal culture at work.
Recruiters were asked to attend meetings to understand actual
need of Organization.
Decentralization was followed. When there is difference in opinion
Gates act as Arbiter.
Reward system was followed.
The Criticism

Analysts say that Microsoft was in no way innovative; as it just


reformed existing products to satisfy customer needs. There was
no actual new product development.
Some products of Microsoft were Bad, in the sense, they were
difficult to work with & were costly to maintain.
Management at Microsoft went Bureaucratic & Red Tapism had
seemed to be dominating the structure.
Some people were also of the view, that Gates had concentrated
too much of decision making in his own hands, which had
rendered the other Senior Employees helpless.
Gates completely miscalculated the Internet Revolution and failed
to introduce suitable alternative product.
The US govt had filed an Anti Trust Suit against Microsoft for acts
of creating Monopolistic practices.
Microsoft dominated the Software industry with its major share
and pre-empted competition in the market by early
announcements of new products. (before even any planning).
It tried to create complete Monopoly in the Market.

Conclusion

In spite of being accused by many critics, Bill Gates had created a


history of his own
He was a Visionary
He was a Leader
He was a Philanthropist
He was an Inspiration for all.!

THANK YOU

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