ASSIGNMENT

BY DIP KUMAR DEY

Q 1. How did Bill Gates and Steve Jobs differ in their Leadership style?

Bill Gate’s leadership is participative style because he involves his

subordinate in decision making. He is a flexible person and he recognized
his role was to be visionary of the company. When ever needed he bring
professional manager for managing and well structure of the organization.
Gates is a strong and energizing person his enthusiasm, hard working
nature, judgment skills reflect his personality. His motivating power and
involving his friends to working with him became the success of
Microsoft.

On the other hand, Steve Job’s leadership is autocratic style, because he

centralizes the authority, he never given a chance to subordinate to
involving decision making. He thinks that what ever he do is right. His
relation with employees not good, he fails to motivate his employees in
many times. Some times he acts as anti Gates, and some times request
Microsoft to develop software for his computer. His cocky attitude and
lack of management skills became a threat of APPLE’S success.

Q.2 Compare and contrast the managerial practice of Gates & Jobs.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both gave their heart & souls to developing
their vision to develop personal computer, but the way they choose was
different from other….
Bill gates develop computer language new Altair 8080 pc which became
the foundation of Microsoft. Bill continuously develop two other
computer languages. When IBM develops their first pc and which need
operating system to run the computer, Microsoft develops MS-DOS for
IBM.
Gates adopting the changes very fast that are his enthusiasm vision and
hard working give him the success. Gates always recognized him as a
visionary he always recognize professional management, he decentralize
authority to make organization structure better.

On the other hand Steve Jobs started apple computer which is hard ware
making company. His vision to develop computer with affordable cost and
easy to use. When Bill offer the basic to jobs then he rejected jobs
proposal and try to develop their own basic with out knowledge of
programming, he fail and accept license with Microsoft basic.
Jobs play duel personality sometimes he oppose Microsoft sometimes
request Microsoft to develop software for their operating system. Jobs
force people to choose between Microsoft-IBM operating system and his
MAC-operating system. Lack of proper management skills and relation
with employees became a barrier of APPLE’s growth.

Q.3 What do u think about the future of Microsoft and Apple computer.

With the success of windows, Office Application and Internet explorer

Microsoft became a house hold name and Bill gates became as business
genius..
Bill Gates adopting the changes very fast his innovative mind all time
busy to developing products. Recent Microsoft develops a number of
products like smartphone with loaded Microsoft window. Microsoft has
tied with number of hand set manufacturer. Microsoft denies that it get
into manufacturing consumer product like telephone, microwaves oven. It
will drive innovation in these products by coming up new ideas at what
product can do networking them. Microsoft is getting into new exciting
business that could catapult it from being a software giant to a major
player in from being a software giant to a major player in almost all aspect
of human life.

On the other hand APPLE goes wrong direction in 1990s. Because Steve
Jobs is very slow to adopting changes that’s the main reason falling the
market share. When Jobs realize changes is the only way to survive the
market then apple develops innovative iMac which is internet friendly &
stylist computer. After sometime Apple gains market. With the iphone,
Apple TV, and name charges job&co are setting a new course for the outfit
once knows only for its computer.
The new name and device represent APPLE’s strategic shift away from its
origins as a personal computing company that has at point struggled both
survive and to set the computing world’s agenda.