Leadership the Bill Gates Way


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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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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...

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...

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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7]  Des DearLove writes frequently for the Times, the American Management Review, and Human Resources. He is also the author of The Ultimate Book of Business Thinking.

8]  A private school, exclusively for boys, which was very popular for its curriculum and its strict and systematic method of teaching.

 

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