As the case study suggests, Bill Gates was an employer and a leader who created a workplace culture at Microsoft where employees were driven to compete with each other under the supervision of Bill Gates. Although employees were not allowed to compete with the employer because Gates was the king, inter-competition among employees resulted in the company’s skyrocketing success to date. Workers while trying to reflect Bill Gates in their work, organizational, and professional performance tried to mirror his skills, motivation, drive, and ambition. This internal competition among the employees of Microsoft motivated the programmers working under Gates to maximize the company’s profit or revenue with each passing year.
Furthermore, Gates’ shift to philanthropy through the organization “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” has further demonstrated his transformational leadership qualities who works with his employees to bring better opportunities not for workers but for other people as well. So, in my opinion, after reading the background of the case study, Bill Gates is, no doubt, a humble, charismatic, and transformational leader who has encouraged people around the world to have a computer in every home and be a prospective programmer to bring a technological change in the world.
The foundation collaboratively made in partnership with Warren Buffet uses a rational approach to drive societal change through evidence-based interventions and data-driven strategies. The main aim of the “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” is to alleviate extreme poverty, improve healthcare, and eradicate disease from all parts of the world, vulnerable populations in particular. The rational approach to tackling hunger, health, and poverty issues around the world is evident in their funding of evidence-based programs that aim to improve sanitation, eradicate diseases, eliminate poverty, control infectious diseases, prevent slavery, and provide financial services to the poor population of the globe.
It is inferred that Bill Gates and his “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” uses a rational approach because it emphasizes reasoning, logic, and evidence-based interventions as well as decision-making. Through this approach, they have maximized the efficiency and effectiveness of their initiatives in Microsoft as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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