The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Bill Gates Way: 10 Secrets of the World’s Richest Business Leader
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Mega-mogul Bill Gates is quite simply the richest and most successful businessman of all time. His remarkable vision and obsessive desire to win have created a leadership style radically different to anything the business world has seen before.Bill Gates, as Des Dearlove reminds us no less than seven times between the covers of this slender volume, is the world’s richest man. As such, there is no shortage of information about him, offline and on. Dearlove, who is a journalist and the author of a
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“The Road Ahead”: Level 3 (Penguin Readers Simplified Text)
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Contemporary / American English Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, started Microsoft in 1975 with a friend when he was only nineteen years old. Twenty years later he wrote this book about the future of computers and the Internet. Read the ideas and dreams of a man who has changed the world.Love him or loathe him, Mr Microsoft is certainly an influential voice in the modern business world and The Road Ahead is definitely an important addition to any business library. Gates’s description of
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Basic but useful,
I’m a believer in the ‘tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you’ve just told them’ approach in training, and it would seem Des Dearlove believes in it for print too. Most of the information is repeated at least three times – much of it verbatim. Overall, I estimate the actual information in this 170-page book could be delivered in about 120.
Having said that, it gives a concise overview of how Gates works, and to some extent how he thinks, and is a reasonable presentation of the sources of his success, albeit in fairly simplistic form. Worth reading as a coffee-table book. NB: written in 2002 before the anti-trust case was ‘resolved’.
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|Quick Easy Read,
I guess the first thing that you notice about the book, is how easily laid out it is. Immediately, appears an easy read.
I liked the way that Des Dearlove started off with the relevant issue surrounding the man, and I thought that Dearlove presented a balanced view of Bill Gates. He later on dives a little deeper into the 10 habits of Bill Gates that makes him such a success.
It is intended for a quick read, so don’t expect a detailed explanation about Bill Gates.
All in all, a definite read for the keen IT enthusiast.
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|Brilliant, Captivating and Superb Book!!,
I really yearn to know the secrets behind great, amazing businessman, especially Bill Gates. The only problem is I don’t feel like spending disproportionate amount of time studying this great people because I have lots of things to do and I would prefer to have a concise yet truthful information about him. Well, this book serves this purpose just right! I love this book extremely because it is just concise yet interesting and easy to follow.
I am amazed by the standard that Bill Gates holds for his massive yet productive company, Microsoft! Even though this company is huge, he tries to break it down into many departments and organises it like a small, productive company.
His attitude of taking no prisoner in business competition is really, really daunting. I could imagine how other software giants like Oracle hate him! However, he is the man to look for if you want a great leader with clear vision.
In short, read this book! I have read it twice in 1 month!
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|Fascinating,
Superb, excellent, this book really captures the mind. Gates shows how intelligent he is with some of his predictions, which will make our lives easier and safer. May of his predictions are suddenly creeping into the market place.In the book Gates describes how technology has advanced, and of course how he thinks it will further advance. He explains things simply and clearly. The beggining of the book is not to great, but the rest of the book is excellent. As gates says at the beggining of the book, ‘ anyone who is expecting a biography of Bill Gates has choosen the wrong book’.This is true, Gates is simply acting as a philiosopher in the technological world.
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|Good Book but…,
I had assumed this was the full book – it’s only the Pre-Intermediate level book and so this was only 48 pages long. It’s an extremely short version; this was my own fault for not checking but I thought I should just give you a heads-up.
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|Bill Gates – The Road Ahead,
I ordered this book from an Amazon seller for £1.29 used with free delivery. I have to say. The book came within a few days and was in good condition.
So Gates’ 1995 ‘predictions’ at the moment seem pretty accurate. I’m only a chapter in and he’s already mentioned applications’ which will act as tools to help us in our everyday lives. An example of this could be Iphone of Blackberry apps.
But I really like the balance between biographical elements and the message he is trying to convey. Certainly ‘the information highway’ he describes is much like today’s internet. Although some ideas seem strange, others are perfectly accurate.
I’d recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the future of technology. As other sellers have said, if you’re looking for a biography, you won’t get it, but something so much more inspiring and uplifting. It feels great to be reading the words (and thoughts) of the second richest man alive and I defy all people to read this, because, as Bill says, the future of technology, and technological advances will affect all of us.
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