Big Shots, Business the Bill Gates Way: 10 Secrets of the World's Richest Business Leader

ISBN-13: 9781841121482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str.

Des Dearlove

Opis

Bill Gates is a modern business phenomenon and most people agree that he is indeed the most successful cyber-tycoons. His is not simply a story of technical brilliance and enormous wealth, it is one of remarkable business vision and an obsessive desire to win. It is also about a leadership style that is radically different to anything the business world has seen before. How does he do it? And how does he keep on doing it? Business The Bill Gates Way reveals the secrets of Gates' remarkable success and shows how Gates's tactics and specific strategies can be applied to any business or career.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.

Bill Gates Revisited...

The Life and Times of Bill Gates.

Be in the Right Place at the Right Time.

Fall in Love with the Technology.

Take No Prisoners.

Hire Very Smart People.

Learn to Survive.

Don′t Expect Any Thanks.

Assume the Visionary Position.

Cover All the Bases.

Built a Byte–Sized Business.

Never, Ever, Take Your Eyes Off the Ball.

How to Get Rich the Bill Gates Way.

Last Word.

Index.

O autorze

DES DEARLOVE is co–founder of the media content, concepts, and consulting firm, Suntop Media. He writes regularly for the London Times, the American Management Review, and Human Resources. He is the author of a number of books on management best practice, including The Ultimate Book of Business Thinking and Business the Richard Branson Way.

Blurb

Bill Gates is a modern business phenomenon: the greatest of the techno–savant tycoons. His grip on the PC software market has made him the richest man on the planet. But Gates′wealth and technical brilliance is only part of his fascination. His remarkable business vision and obsessive desire to win has created a headership style that radically different to anything the business world has seen before.

But you won′t find many clues to the Gates′ management or leadership techniques in business schools. So where do we turn to find out how this guy ticks? Beneath the hype and counter–hype, what sort of man is Bill Gates really?

Brought completely up to date for this new edition, Business the Bill Gates Way not only reveals the secrets of Gates′ remarkable success but also draws out the universal lessons and identifies strategies that can be applied to any business or career. From hiring very smart people to loving what you make, and from crushing your competitors to never, ever, ever taking your eye off the ball, you have in your hands the secret of phenomenal success.