Bill Gates and Microsoft

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The paper attempts to shed light on the factors that have made Bill Gates the ideal leader. The paper labels Gates as a visionary, a natural entrepreneur with marketing talent, as well as a leader who pays attention to innovation. The paper also discusses how Gates is extremely organized and empowers employees to compete among themselves and create results. The paper relates that while he has been criticized for his controlling nature, Gates has led Microsoft to be one of the most successful companies on the planet, and has reached the position of becoming the world's richest man.

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"Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle Washington. His father is a Seattle attorney, and his mother was a schoolteacher and eventually the chairwoman of the philanthropic group United Way International. Gates attended public school in Seattle, and then attended the private Lakeside School, where he first discovered his love for computers when he was only 13. Gates attended Harvard, but never graduated. Instead, his love of computers grew, and he developed a new version of the BASIC computer language while he was still attending the school. Gates left Harvard in his junior year to devote his time to Microsoft, the company he and friend Paul Allen first developed in 1975. Devoted to developing software for the Personal Computer (PC) market, Microsoft has been a success almost ever since, and many believe it is largely due to Gates' leadership and foresight into the computer market (Editors, 2007)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Editors. (2007). Biography: Bill Gates. Retrieved 12 March 2008 from the Microsoft.com Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/bio.mspx.
• Gates, B. (2006). How I work. Retrieved 12 March 2008 from the CNN.com Web site: http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/30/news/newsmakers/gates_howiwork_fortune/.
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