Leadership the Bill Gates Way
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Case Details:
Case Code : LDEN014
Case Length : 14 Pages
Period : 1968-2003
Pub Date : 2003
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Microsoft
Industry : Software
Countries : USA
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Introduction Contd...
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Though Gates was highly appreciated for his visionary leadership, he was also
criticized by some analysts. Critics felt that sometimes Gates took things so
much to heart that his emotional feeling overshadowed his rational thinking.
They said that Gates' intense rivalry with some of his competitors made him
personalize every battle and obscured his judgement.
Critics claimed that winning was so important to Gates that he would go to any
extent to beat his opponent. James Wallace of Seattle Post-Intelligencer said,
"Bill Gates not only wants to win, but he wants to kill the competition. He
wants to bury the wounded"7...
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Background Note
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, US, on October 28, 1955. His father,
William Henry Gates (II) Jr., was a lawyer while his mother, Mary Gates, was
a school teacher. At a very young age, Gates exhibited a lot of intelligence
and zeal. At the primary school itself, he excelled in Maths and Science.
Since his childhood, he was fond of reading business magazines like Fortune.
Noticing his precocity, his parents enrolled him in Lakeside Preparatory
School (LPS)8 in seventh grade at the
age of 12. At LPS, Gates saw a computer for the first time in his life...
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Gates, along with his friend, Paul Allen (Allen), used to spend hours in
front of the computer. Sometimes he spent the whole day in the computer room
reading computer books and magazines and developing computer programs.
Gates
was so obsessed with the computer that he often missed his classes and never
did his homework on time.
In late 1968, Gates and Allen, along with two other schoolmates, formed a
group called the 'Lakeside Programmers Group' (LPG). Gates and Allen always
dreamed of solving practical problems through the use of computers... |
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