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Bill Gates' leadership style is democratic and participative, valuing employee input in decision making. While effective overall, his style could be improved by reducing arrogance when his ideas are challenged, avoiding an overfocus on results that ignores logical steps, and directly confronting conflicts rather than avoiding them.

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Bill Gates' leadership style is democratic and participative, valuing employee input in decision making. While effective overall, his style could be improved by reducing arrogance when his ideas are challenged, avoiding an overfocus on results that ignores logical steps, and directly confronting conflicts rather than avoiding them.

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*Assignment 8*

Identify an engineer of your choice.


1. Describe his leadership style.
 Bill Gates’ leadership style is a very participative and a very directive style
because all his other subordinates and employees are involved in decision
making and they’re allowed to give their opinions and suggestions. He values his
staff and knows the importance of his staffs. Bill Gates specifies the task of what
needs to be accomplished to achieve productivity and morale in a given
situation. This leadership style is known as the democratic leadership style
where there is a more participative role in the decision making process. It is
found to be one of the most effective leadership styles and leads to higher
productivity. The advantage of the democratic leadership style is that it develops
a greater feeling of loyalty and commitment to the team from members who
play a part in decision making. The leader also feels more supported by his team
members. If a decision is very complex and broad, this is where the democratic
leader shines.
2. Are there important changes that have to be made in his style?
 Yes since no one is perfect, every leader makes a mistakes from time to time.
And has specific weaknesses.
3. What are those?
 being Arrogance if he feels like his idea is the best solution, then that is the idea
which is pursued. His approach to the work can become a weakness, esp. if there
are other ideas presented to consider.
 Result Driven ,taking an approach sometimes where the “ends justified the
means” so there were times when the logical steps of progression were ignored.
He become so focused on obtaining the goals that he’d set for himself and his
team that he lost track of those steps.
 Conflict Avoidance, Gates often avoid conflict whenever he could, rather than
confront the situation head-on, because the act of conflict made him
uncomfortable. When there is an unwillingness to confront an issue, it becomes
possible for negative energy to explode and cover a team with its influence.

4. List down the proposed character change applicable. 


 Arrogance
 Result Driven
 Conflict avoidance
Submit your output on April 7, 2021

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