Leadership Theory of Meg Whitman and Bill Gates

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TOC \o "1-3 " \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l "_Toc3 " Introduction PAGEREF _Toc3 \h 4

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc4 " The Rise of a 13 Year Regime at the top Bill Gates PAGEREF _Toc4 \h 5

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc5 (Richest Man for 13 consecutive years PAGEREF _Toc5 \h 5

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc6 " Various Leadership Traits of Bill Gates PAGEREF _Toc6 \h 6

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc7 " General Personality traits PAGEREF _Toc7 \h 7

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc8 " Task Related Traits PAGEREF _Toc8 \h 8

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc9 " Charismatic

and transformational leadership skills PAGEREF _Toc9 \h 9

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc0 " Gates : A Charismatic Leader PAGEREF _Toc0 \h 9

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc1 " Leadership behaviour , attitudes and styles PAGEREF _Toc1 \h 10

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc2 " Meg Whitman PAGEREF _Toc2 \h 11

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc3 " General Personality traits PAGEREF _Toc3 \h 12

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc4 " Task oriented traits of Meg Whitman PAGEREF _Toc4 \h 12

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc5 " Charismatic and Transformational leadership skills PAGEREF _Toc5 \h 13

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc6 " Leadership behaviour , attitudes and styles PAGEREF _Toc6 \h 14

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc7 " A Comparison : The Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc7 \h 16

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc8 " Comparison within Leadership Techniques of both Leaders PAGEREF _Toc8 \h 16

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc9 " Executive Summary PAGEREF _Toc9 \h 18

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc0 " Works Cited PAGEREF _Toc0 \h 20

HYPERLINK \l "_Toc1 " Bibliography PAGEREF _Toc1 \h 22 Introduction

Although Leadership is a trait that is believed to pre - exist in any human being , and several controversies on this subject will make you believe that Leaders can only be born and not made (Corrigan , 1999 As mentioned by Mr . Paul Corrigan (1999 , that the statement Leaders can only be born and not made ' is just an assumption and leaders can also be created , but only with proper and timely training

Mr . Corrigan also states that it is very easy for Managers to become leaders as compared to an anonymous entity becoming a leader . Thus he means that effective management training can help us become better Leaders

And Mr . Bill Gates , the third richest person (Kroll , 2008 ) on this planet proves the above statement that Leaders do not come from breeding , but they develop according to the circumstances and the quality of education around them . Mr . Gates has been chosen as an important research fraction of this report due to his grand leadership qualities . After all , who could be a better leader than a man who leads a Another candidate that we picked to prove the effectiveness of good leadership qualities is 51 years old lady entrepreneur Meg Whitman , who escorted eBay to new heights of success , that is until she withdrawn herself from the post of CEO President in the month of March this same year . And besides , since she got down from that chair she has been in the news for the whole 2 months , so as a courtesy to Ms . Margaret (Meg Whitman , we figured that this report should talk about her

The Rise of a 13 Year Regime at the top...