...Bill Gates’ motivation may have been sparked from the semi-success of his parents. They were established, after all. His father served in the U.S. Army and later attended college at the University of Washington. His mother also attended college at UW where she was a sorority president. She was also a member of an organization that is now known as the United Way. Bill Gates was known for taking annual week-long vacations that he called “Think Week”. In 1995 he returned from his Think Week with a memo for his executive staff on the subject of the newest development, the internet, and Microsoft’s newest competitor, Netscape. Bill’s initiative to take time for himself to think could be attributed to his grandmother’s constant reminder for him to think. As a boy, he would even sit in his bedroom after dinner in which he said he was thinking. Gates’ was determined to grow his company by placing his software everywhere that he could. His software was installed on nearly every computer hardware that was available, except for those made by Apple Inc, in which he later made an attempt to buy when he recognized them as the only competitor left. He even made a deal with AOL to put their icon on his software if they made Microsoft’s Internet Explorer their internet browser. His competitive nature directly relates to his childhood experiences. His Gam was a competitive card player who taught him how to play and “think smart”. Gates was also the fastest in his class at answering math drill...
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...The management style of both Bill gates and Steve Jobs is unique because they are very good in implementing high-quality ideas, and starts to work on those ideas and converting those ideas into a successful product. Secondly, the most important thing is that they decide to take any risks without any tensions and try very hard to reach their goal. MS-DOS for Microsoft would be a good example and Lisa and the page maker are the example for apple. (Gates, Bill (1996) The management style of Steve jobs is too aggressive because of a forceful and demanding personality. Aspirations of Steve jobs are to place Apple and its merchandise at the front position in the information technology Industry. Modernization and style are the two key words that he used to set the trend in this global world. Bill Gates happily performed both the roles of an executive which mean he participate in the development team as well as in management section. Before, Bill Gates was a software developer who always trying to develop new software using new technologies but slowly he push himself to the management role and he became a successful manger of his company. Under his management role, he tries to place the company long term goal at risks and trying to resolve all problems that are running in the business. The primary responsibility of the Bill Gates for the company is to take proper concentration on products strategies. He aggressively contributed in the company board range of products and he achieved...
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...on: profiles of two visionaries: bill gates and Steve jobs Prepared for: Rumana Afrose Lecturer Department of Business Administration East West University Prepared by: Md. Taijul Islam ID: 2009-2-10-217 Subject Code: MGT 101Section: 09 | Date of Submission: November 04, 2013 Table of content: Introduction In this assignment contrasting leadership style of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs has been analyzed and main features of the style have been described. The impact of their leadership style individual, team and organizational performance has also been explained. Various global leaders have different leadership style depending on the size and nature of the organization. The two global leaders known for their achievements in their field are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Their leadership style has contrasting aspects as well as few similarities. Profile of Steve jobs: * Name: Steve Jobs * Full Name: Steven Paul Jobs * Aka: Steve Jobs * Aka: Steven Jobs * Birth date: Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. * Education: Reed College, Homestead High School * Occupation: Entrepreneur, Inventor 1 Apr 1976: Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Apr 1989: Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine Jul 1997: Gil Amelio is ousted by the Apple Board of directors after a disastrous quarter. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO in his place...
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...Shawn Johnson 12/11/11 Assignment 5-1 The two business leaders that I will be comparing are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. These guys are the leaders of the Information Technology Industry who have revolutionized the Information Technology world with their great thinking and innovation. As far as their education is concerned they both don’t have a good record, they both were the dropouts. As I am doing the comparative analysis of each of their appropriate skills, I will be considering the differences and similarities between Bill Gates of Microsoft and Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, two of the most successful Business Leaders in the world of personal computing. Both started their careers almost at the same time and within the same industry. They are without a doubt two of the most successful and wealthy men in the PC industry. Steve Jobs is a true creative thinker and technological leader while Bill Gates is a brilliant businessmen and true genius. The competition and rivalry between Gates and Jobs has become one of the most enduring and fascinating in the American business industry. In the end both men are well-known and idolized by many. Both Bill Gates and Steve jobs are extremely good at taking in good ideas, and developing them and making them into a successful product. This mostly because they are not at all afraid of taking any risks and try very hard even if they do not always get it right the first time. An example for this would be MS-DOS for Microsoft and an example...
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...I am doing a short research on two successful leaders in the technology sector on their leadership style and behavior. The First person I have selected to research on the leadership style and behavior is Bill Gates. William (Bill) H. Gates III is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, the world's leading provider of software for personal computers. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father was a Seattle attorney. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent and chairwoman of United Way International. Bill Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at there that Bill Gates began his career in personal computer software, programming computers at age 13.In 1973 he entered Harvard University as a freshman. While he was there, he developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair. BASIC was first developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960s. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to fully devote his time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. With a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began to develop software for personal computers. Below list some of his achievements 1 Sunday Times...
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...and, using an algorithm for ranking chess players supplied by his best friend Eduardo Saverin, he creates in a few hours a website called "FaceMash.com", where male students can interactively choose which of two girls presented at a time is more attractive. Mark is punished with six months of academic probation after the traffic to the site brings down parts of Harvard's computer network, and he becomes vilified among most of Harvard's female community. However, the popularity of "FaceMash" and the fact that he created it in one night, while drunk, brings him to the attention of Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, identical twins and members of Harvard's rowing team, and their business partner Divya Narendra. As a result, he gains a job working for the Winklevoss twins as the programmer of their website, Harvard Connection. Soon afterwards, Mark approaches his friend Eduardo and tells him of his idea for what he calls "The Facebook", an online social networking website exclusive to Harvard University students. He explains this would let people share personal and social information securely. Eduardo agrees to help Mark, providing a fee of $1,000 to help start the...
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...first Macintosh. Steve Jobs (Noah Wyle) is speaking with director Ridley Scott (J. G. Hertzler), trying to convey his idea that "We're creating a completely new consciousness." Scott, however, is more concerned at the moment with the technical aspects of the commercial. The film then flashes forward to 1997 as Jobs, who has returned to Apple, is announcing a new deal with Microsoft at the 1997 Macworld Expo. His partner, Steve Wozniak (Joey Slotnick), is introduced as one of the two central narrators of the story. Wozniak notes to the audience the resemblance between "Big Brother" and the image of Bill Gates (Anthony Hall) on the screen behind Jobs during this announcement. Asking how they "got from there to here," the film turns to flashbacks of his youth with Jobs, prior to the forming of Apple. The earliest flashback is in 1971 and takes place on the U.C. Berkeley campus during the period of the student anti-war movements. Jobs and Wozniak are shown caught on the campus during a riot between students and police. They flee and after finding safety, Jobs states to Wozniak, "Those guys think they're revolutionaries. They're not revolutionaries, we are." Wozniak then comments that "Steve was never like you or me. He always saw things differently. Even when I was in Berkeley, I would see something and just see kilobytes or circuit boards while he'd see karma or the meaning of the universe." Using a similar structure, the film next turns to a young Bill Gates at Harvard University...
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...the dual between Steve Jobs the Apple Company and Bill Gates of Microsoft. This movie draws out the evolution of the computers and how they advanced technology with the new creation of Apple computers in that era. Talking directly about Steve Job, Firth of all is to express his positive values which had been admired and having people compassionated on what are companionship of all the main characters, Steve Jobs, Steve Wazniac and with Bill Gates and Paul. Steve Jobs has a very high persistent to be a successful businessman even after he got fire from Apple company, he started his new companies named NeXT and Pixar in after 5 years to proof his absence was worse. Furthermore, this movies shows the struggling lives in college and ton of passions for what he was interesting in and with just a little investment to achieve his goal and somedays he will be a successful one and he did it, especially to show that failure is success which worth learning from your mistakes. However, despite his positive points there are many consequences to concern such as basically Apple copied idea from Xerox, a company which invited Steve Jobs to see the development of graphical interface and though with the silly idea to agree to let Apple looked at everything they had and Apple as it naturally stole everything it could. Thing had been gone more complicated when Microsoft as having Bill Gates is the owner tricked Steve Jobs and stole the idea from Apple company. As a result, Steve was fired because...
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...was developed in a garage in Silicon Valley. Every one of them built a version of a computer in their garages. Ed Roberts developed the Altair (first personal computer) which worked by flipping a series of switches. Many programmers enjoyed this version, but thought it to be too annoying to work with. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs later enhanced the Altair with developments and named it Apple2 . Which boomed the market . Grace Hopper developed COBOL which made it possible for them to advance much easier. More people created applications that made the display more attractive, and more fun. Riding the Bear-With all the computer companies existing in the world, new companies could not really take off. Many of the major companies competed for ownership of the world’s computer users. IBM was in trouble, and in order to save themselves, they thought up a new idea: use non IBM products. That worked quite well, but Bill Gates (Microsoft) was still the wealthiest man in the world. So IBM called upon Bill Gates to create an operating system for them. All knew that Microsoft would be a million-dollar company soon. Compaq also developed and got a part of this action. Great Artists Steal-Bill Gates went on to become extremely successful. His goal was to have his software running on every computer existing. His promotional launch of Windows 95 was amazing, he cut...
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...REACTION PAPER (PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY) Mary grace D. Acero CS-3a The movie “PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY” is all about how Apple and Microsoft got started. This creation was made because of the two intelligent people: Steve Jobs for Apple and Bill Gates for Microsoft. It shows how the first Apple computer was made which is the Macintosh. The movie is also about how the two intelligent persons compete to each other in order to be a successful or famous. It also shows how a good leader handles his employees or team. Just like with Steve Jobs. He is so abusive to his workers. It just like he is only the good person. He always wants to follow his decisions and not giving chance to listen to the opinions or decisions of his teammates. That’s why he had also a problem when it comes to his family. It is quite opposite to Bill Gates. Because Bill is just a simple man and he used his intelligence in good way. That’s why he succeeds much compared to Steve Jobs and became a wealthiest man in the world. I learned from that negative attitude of Steve Jobs. It teaches me not to be high regard to yourself in whatever achievements you will have. It’s because we cannot conclude what the future will holds, sometimes those who are not considered now might be the one who will succeed more. In everything we do, we should be humble. We should also consider the opinions of others. Their points of view will sometimes help us succeed not only for our own interest but to the whole organization...
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...Leaders: Steve Jobs Ajla Cusic Grand Canyon University: MGT-420 March 14, 2016 Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1995 in Los Altos, California. He is Co-founder, Chairman, and former CEO of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak who were high school friends and both college dropouts joined together to start the Apple computer in 1976. They received credit for inventing the first computer for home use. I chose to write about Steve Jobs and his great accomplishments. He made it possible for people everywhere to have access to a computer whether is was at home or in a workplace. Along with achievements he possessed leadership skills. He also faced several obstacles in his life along with competitors of Apple that he dealt with in order to achieve the best possible outcomes that he could have. According to CNBC, “Steve Jobs was recognized not only for his work at Apple, but also for his influence on the wider culture both in business and in people’s personal lives.” Clearly Steve Jobs was recognized for being in the technology industry with new Apple products advancing every year. He was in this leadership until October 5, 2011 when he passed away due to pancreatic cancer. He was truly someone who would be hard to forget, he was not just an ordinary technologist or entrepreneur, he was someone who was distinctly different, which is why this paper is going to explain what his actions were as a famous leader. Many great leaders such as Steve Jobs led companies...
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...Business Leadership EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs, the man who saved a company that was literally a fiscal quarter away from bankruptcy and proceeded to grow it into the largest company in the world by market capital the company ‘The Apple’. Steve Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. Good leadership is major, particularly in today’s competitive global economy, and can make the difference between the success and the failure of the organization. As per the sentence Steve jobs is the concrete example of a lifetime natural successful leader, evidence is the Apple’s success. Apple’s market capitalization is over $300 Billion (Elmer-Dewitt, 2011) making it the second most valuable publicly traded company in the world, surpassing even giant (and rival) Microsoft. Steve Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was different from many other corporate leaders in that he always knew what he wanted. When he returned to Apple after his decade-long banishment starting in the mid-80′s, the company was on the margin of bankruptcy. He actually wrote some of the...
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...Mac vs. PC Bill Gates: “There may be a few….similarities.” Steve Jobs: “Similarities? Similarities? Try theft.” (from “Pirates of Silicon Valley”) Everyone knows of the popular household names Apple and Microsoft. Apple was started by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. They created the first Apple computer in Jobs’ parents garage in the 1970’s. They knew that they had created something great so they called their company Apple. Bill Gates on the other hand created Microsoft. He never made a computer; what he did was create software and put it on other computers. Allegedly, Bill Gates stole Apple’s Macintosh prototype software from Steve Jobs. Gates only received the prototypes because Jobs thought he could trust Gates, but he was sorely mistaken. These two popular household names are similar, but they have differences such as ability to customize, operating system, price, and virus protection. Apple and Microsoft are alike in they were created at the same time and both had great ideas. Some similarities they share are products such as portable media players and smart phones, tablet devices, and retail stores. They both have portable media players. Apple has the iPod and Microsoft has the Zune. They both do the same thing, but have completely different functions within the device. Zune is all tiled and more cut and dry verses the iPod ,which is sleek, creative, and allows more wiggle room than the Zune. Apple wins over people with the iPhone; it functions just like their iPod...
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...movie of “The Pirates of Silicon Valley” was regarding on the stating of two companies: the apple and the Microsoft company, and the difference of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Steve Jobs is a person that has a vision that someday he become a millionaire and he always say to himself everything and they called him weird. First i was saw his face in the movie, the first thing that captured in my mind was, is he become a professional someday? His garments are like a poor for that reason he did not permitted to owe in the bank. Afterwards, Steve realized and changed his personality like a professional and he with his friend hired to apple’s company. He is one who improved their company and very well known but in the other side his attitude is not good if he is not in mood and angry. While on the other scene Bill Gates also showed as a nobody person and ignored by Steve’s computer expo. He also wants to know the development of a computer of apple’s company and striving to compete others company and develop a new technology such as compute. The story narrates the competition between two companies and the accusation of Steve to Bill of getting the computer resources of their company but still in the last part Steve and Bill announced that they are a good team together. As a student, I’m inspired with abilities and visions of Steve and Bill. And it is helpful for me and to all IT students that there is an opportunity to show our skills and knowledge of being a student that someday...
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...organization will be Microsoft and Apple. In the media lately, we learned Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, stepped down from the organization. Generally when organizations make changes, they risk a shift in employees, shareholders, and customers keeping the integrity in the organization. Microsoft handled the change in leadership wisely. This was accomplished when the announcement of Bill Gates was stepping down from his leadership position; they quickly announced the step up of his successor, the longtime executive Satya Nadella as its new CEO. “Knowing which type of change your organization is undergoing is critical to your success.” (Anderson, 2013) It is important for an organization to develop a correct strategy on how to handle organizational changes in the press. Microsoft made the transition in its leadership appear effortlessly. It was ingenious to announce his successor and all her qualifications such as her being a “respected internal candidate to lead the aging technology giant through a period of unprecedented change and challenges to its business”. (Bishop, 2014) The organization handled the significant change in their leadership accurately in its execution; leaving the brand image and loyalty intact. In contrast to Microsoft, the next biggest technology led organization, Apple went through a significant leadership change when its co-founder Steve Jobs, passed away, whereas Microsoft announced its successor after its co-founder made the choice to step...
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