Bill Gates

Since I was a little girl working with children had always been a passion of mine which has stemmed from my gran, who had been a teacher in earlier life. Despite university not being my first choice, I decided that taking a degree in Primary Education would help me to accomplish this. I would like to qualify as a teacher and gradually work my way up the ladder to becoming head of a school; I feel that by taking this module I will learn and understand the skills needed to achieve this goal. Over the summer I worked in a local nursery as bank staff where I got the opportunity to care for and develop children’s learning. I chose to do my first journal review on Bill Gates because I find it inspiring that Bill knew from a young age what his dream …show more content…
Bill Gates had the dream of developing Microsoft and developing computer programmes from the age of 13. He dropped out of Harvard after developing a version of the programming language to dedicate his full time to Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Despite the criticism and knock backs that he had along the way he never lost sight of the reason why he was doing what he loved. I feel that it is a really important aspect to become a good leader and manager. I find myself often wanting to give up on my dreams due to push backs and lack of confidence preventing me from reaching my full potential. The second lesson that I have learnt from this article is to have confidence not only in yourself but also in your ability to be able to manage a large company. Within the article it talks about Bill Gates having the confidence in himself, the product and having the confidence in order to be able to lead his co-workers in the development of Microsoft. Furthermore the article discusses how Bill Gates was great at being able to convince people how much of a success Microsoft would be. I feel both these attributes are important as it allows you to grow and develop yourself and your …show more content…
Through reading the article I have learnt several key leadership styles from Bill Gates that I feel will benefit this. I feel I can particularly relate to Gates passion to follow and succeed in his dream without letting obstacles stand in his way. Furthermore Gates has taught me that it is not just about succeeding in your dream but the journey you take to get there and what you do once you’ve reached that goal. His characteristics of hard work, determination and motivation will help me in teaching as all successful teachers are only successful due to the amount of hard work and effort they have put into their job. Even more so in teaching I will be faced with many tough decisions to make that not everyone may agree