I’ve always been a great fan of Bill Gates, knowing the fact that he’s a billionaire because of inventing Microsoft, there still a lot of things that people should know about him such as handling ever day work and managing every type of person in his company.
Bill Gates’ Leadership and Management Styles
According Laurie J. Mullins (2005), leadership is concerned more with attention to communicating with motivating, encouraging and involving people. Under Bill Gates’ leadership, the Microsoft’s mission to continuously to move forward and improve the software technology, to more cost effective and that will make it easier to more enjoyable for user to use computer. According the Thocp.net (2010), Company committed to one long-term view, which accounts in his investment is a few $2.6bilion to fiscal during year research and current development.
Leadership Styles
- Autocratic style
Control is basis to Gates’ nature and his management practice. He an obsession with detail and which choking up for example, he used to sign expenses for his right hand man (Steve Ballmer). He is trying to monopolize the World Wide Web software market and has bad legal problems with the department of justice. Microsoft restricted the ability of its internet partners to deal with its rivals. Also he dislikes complaints.
- Delegate style
Bill Gates give special attention to recruit and retain the best talent in the software industry and he believed that from the recruitment of talented software engineers was one of the most critical elements in the software industry. Gates looked for a collection of attributes in recruits and these included the capacity to grasp new knowledge quickly, deep skill with programming structure and the ability to ask the interested questions. From that, a great number of potential recruits applied for job at Microsoft he found that the best talent would never apply directly. As a result, Microsoft’s HR managers had to look for the best talent and offer their job. Give autonomy to his manager, his delegate’s authority to managers to run their independent department.
Management Styles
- Create and nurture ‘the correct culture.’– ‘John Battelle co-founded Wired Magazine. He says Microsoft was the pioneer of the new-agey workplace, making work as comfortable, inspiring and fun as possible so workers would spend lots of time there. John Battelle: And as a matter of fact, at Wired we adopted that stuff. We had a chef and a masseuse, all sorts of services, because we wanted our employees to stick around. I believe Microsoft gets a lot of credit for that. Bill Gates didn’t even finish college, but the office culture he created at Microsoft is now being taught at the country’s top business schools.’ – Courtesy of Marketplace
- Develop a Clear Vision–and Stick to It. – From the beginning, he dreamed of developing Microsoft into a corporate giant. For CIOs this is one of the most important traits that MUSTbe part of the toolbox. CIOs need to clearly identify to themselves and communicate to the environment that they work in ‘the vision’ that they have set out to achieve. They then need to have the confidence to deliver that vision.
- Hire ‘Action’ oriented employees. – CIOs usually have exposure to many different environments and come across many employees. Some will be better than others, while some will be outstanding. Gates has always hired the smartest people who can ‘get the job done.’ Hire your friends and past colleagues, as they will have loyalty to you and you personally know whether they have what it takes to realize your ‘vision.’
- Relax and feel at home – According to Matt Richey, ‘Microsoft has a simple way of maximizing its employees’ productivity: It allows each individual’s office to be as individualized as one desires. That means making the office more like home. Everything from real offices (not cubicles) to windows in most offices, from free soft drinks to no dress code, from an open supply room to anything-goes work hours. Quite simply, these policies improve employee morale, and thus increase overall productivity.’
- ‘Image’ is everything. – Gates has successfully changed his image over the years from a geek to corporate leader and philanthropist. CIOs need to change their image from just being technology leader to leaders who understand business and can apply their strategic IT and business skills to the wider business.
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