Melinda Gates is a total systems thinker who constantly sets and achieves goals. She is known as
Question:
Melinda Gates is a total systems thinker who constantly sets and achieves goals. She is known as a strong team builder, who strives for collaboration in decision making. Melinda is loving and charming; she wins people over by being persuasive. She is compassionate and not afraid to get involved as she travels the world to help solve its problems. She held AIDS babies with dirty pants and comforted patients when she visited Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in India. She has more influence than Bill when it comes to investing their assets in philanthropic projects. She is ranked in the top 30 on The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes.
Support your answers to the following questions with specific information from the case and text or with other information you get from the Web or other sources.
1. What do you think Bill and Melinda Gates’s personality traits are for each of the Big Five dimensions? Compare the two.
2. Which of the traits of effective leaders would you say has had the greatest impact on Bill and Melinda Gates’s success? Compare the two. 3. Which motivation would McClelland say was the major need driving Bill and Melinda Gates to continue to work so hard despite being worth many billions of dollars?
4. Do Bill and Melinda Gates have an LMP? Compare the two.
5. What type of self-concept do Bill and Melinda Gates have, and how does it affect their success?
6. Is Bill Gates ethical in business at Microsoft? Which level of moral development is he on?
7. Which leadership managerial role(s) played by Bill and Melinda Gates have an important part in the success of their foundation ?
Managerial economics
ISBN: 978-1118041581
7th edition
Authors: william f. samuelson stephen g. marks