Compare and Contrast Two Leaders

Compare and Contrast Two Leaders

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs differ in their Leadership style

Bill Gate's leadership is participative style because he involves his subordinate in decision making. He is a flexible person and he recognized his role was to be visionary of the company. When ever needed he bring professional manager for managing and well structure of the organization. Gates is a strong and energizing person his enthusiasm, hard working nature, judgment skills reflect his personality. His motivating power and involving his friends to working with him became the success of Microsoft. On the other hand, Steve Job's leadership is autocratic style, because he centralizes the authority, he never given a chance to subordinate to involving decision making.

Compare and contrast of the managerial practice of Gates & Jobs

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both gave their heart & souls to developing their vision to develop personal computer, but the way they choose was different from other….Bill gates develop computer language new Altair 8080 pc which became the foundation of Microsoft. Bill continuously develops two other computer languages. When IBM develops their first pc and which need operating system to run the computer, Microsoft develops MS-DOS for IBM.

Gates adopting the changes very fast that are his enthusiasm vision and hard working give him the success. Gates always recognized him as a visionary he always recognize professional management, he decentralize authority to make organization structure better. On the other hand Steve Jobs started apple computer which is hardware making company. His vision is to develop computer with affordable cost and easy to use. When Bill offer the basic to jobs then he rejected jobs proposal and try to develop their own basic without knowledge of programming, he fail and accept license with Microsoft basic. Jobs play duel personality sometimes he oppose Microsoft sometimes request Microsoft to develop software for their operating system. Jobs force people to choose between Microsoft-IBM operating system and his MAC-operating system. Lack of proper management skills and relation with employees became a barrier of APPLE's growth.

With the success of windows, Office Application and Internet explorer Microsoft became a house hold name and Bill gates became as business genius. Bill Gates adopting the changes very fast his innovative mind all time busy to developing products. Recent Microsoft develops a number of products like Smartphone with loaded Microsoft window. Microsoft hasted with number of hand set manufacturer. Microsoft denies that it get into manufacturing consumer product like telephone, microwaves oven. It will drive innovation in these products by coming up new ideas at what product can do networking them. Microsoft is getting into new exciting business that could catapult it from being a software giant to a major player in from being a software giant to a major player in almost all aspect of human life. On the other hand APPLE goes wrong direction in 1990s. Because Steve Jobs is very slow to adopting changes that's the main reason falling the market ...