LEADERSHIP COMPARISON

Leadership Comparison

Leadership Comparison

Introduction

The Study focuses on the similarities and difference between Steve job and Bill Gates with respect to their leadership styles and their story of success with different brands like an Apple and Microsoft, but within the same industry. These two personalities are considered one of the most successful people in the industry of personal computers.

Steve Jobs was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1955, in the month of February. He is the CEO and Co-founder of Apple computers. He is well known for his leadership of Pixar, a studio known for computer animation. Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955, in the month of October. He is the Chief Software Architect and current Chairman of Microsoft. He is also known as the Co-founder of Microsoft. They both had started their professional career at the same time and sooner they became the biggest competitors of each other.

They both are undoubtedly the wealthiest and the successful in the personal computer industry. Bill Gates is a opportunity seeker, he is known for his versatility in his leadership styles. On the other hand, Steve Jobs have had always focused on technology and creative thinking. Steve Jobs have always catered and projected his people through technological leadership. The rivalry among these two has been phenomenal and it has been fascinating and enduring for the American Business industry. Both of them are idolized and well known throughout the world (International Business, History, 2010).

Gates has always focused on software, without worrying too much about the machines and doing his standard operating system for computers. Jobs, however, has bet on the product: "not compatible", but innovative, futuristic and elite. Enough for the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad become the objects of worship can change our lives.

In the picture you see on the right, there is a lot of derby life between Steve and Bill, the two boys of '55 that changed the world. Steve, a billionaire in jeans, sneakers and black turtleneck, has style, the style of those who think that the eyes are the engine of the world. Bill has the usual appearance of those dresses without turning on the light, so that for him, life happens inside the brain, biological or electronic either. Steve has modest origins, and for him, life is struggle. Bill was born rich; it is for him the industrial wars are a puzzle, a game, a test of intelligence. Steve is wittier and teases his rival, Bill laughs because the American rule is that you are angry just off camera (Caulfield, 2011). Thirty-five years ago, Bill wrote the software for the first great success of Steve, the Apple. "So we were always the youngest in each meeting, today it seems to me that we are older," says Steve winking at the audience of young fans (International Business Times, 2010).

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