Bill Gates
Essay by people • May 23, 2012 • Essay • 346 Words (2 Pages) • 1,932 Views
* Bill Gates invests a high proportion of the incomes of Microsoft on
research and development. (Descriptive)
According to him, that budget is very important to continually advance and
improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective
and more enjoyable for people to use computers. (Philosophical)
Obviously, by allocating a huge budget on research and development,
Gates is sending the message to his employees not to be satisfied with
what customers said yesterday or say today. That working at Microsoft is
a continuous learning experience. In turn, those thoughts is driving his
employees to innovate more and more which unquestionably, bring
Microsoft into great success as the software industry's leading innovator.
(Interpretive)
* Bill Gates places control as his management style. He has an obsession
with detail and checking up. For example, As an executive, Gates met
regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers.
Firsthand accounts of these meetings describe him as verbally combative,
berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies or
proposals that placed the company's long-term interests at risk. He often
interrupted presentations with such comments as, "That's the stupidest
thing I've ever heard!" and, "Why don't you just give up your options and
join the Peace Corps?" The target of his outburst then had to defend the
proposal in detail until, hopefully, Gates was fully convinced. When
subordinates appeared to be procrastinating, he was known to remark
sarcastically, "I'll do it over the weekend." (Descriptive)
WHAT I LEARNED FROM BILL GATES
Eventually, from the making of this paper I learned that in order to get
success in any fields, one must really do what he or she is passionate about. No
mind-boggling success story has been written till now without a great passion.
And Bill
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