Bill Gates

* 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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