Leadership Styles of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

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.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation, world's leading software provider. His career is quite long as he started his career in programming personal computer at a very young age of 13. He is an instinctive innovator and entrepreneur. He is very focused in his vision which made his company a market leader in software industry (Gates, 1995).

As a leader his leadership style quite different which has a mixture of autocratic, visionary and participative approaches. He is actively involved in technology development for new products and in making various strategic decisions. He spends most of his time for staying touch with customers and employees around the world. He expects his managers to have their own personal influence and to take decisions assuming they are the CEO of the organization which showed the participative leadership style.  He met his managers regularly to discuss the business strategy. The technology and innovation in the organization is completely decided by Bill Gates where the managers do not possess any role which shows a slight autocratic style. The future for the follower (customer) is decided by Bill Gates who lets us move forward with technology which shows visionary style of leadership (Lowe, 2001).

The Story of Gates

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