Bill Gates: Virtue Ethics And Virtue Ethics

Introduction The founder of Microsoft doesn’t need and introduction. Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest person in the world. He is well known for his harsh “do as I say, not as I do,” leadership style in the workplace. He was a visionary, and his vision was to build a company or product that would forever change the world The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were created by them both .Their foundation is worldwide and its design to reduce inequity, health and the wellbeing not only in America but also in developing countries. His personality can be accredited to the different types of virtue ethics and vice ethics, that help establish a successful business and contributed to his foundation. Virtue ethics outline the highlights of a person’s character in the sense of they think, relatively than guidelines about the acts themselves. Virtue can be look at as a practice that let a person succeed at their goals. The virtues that will be highlighted during this discussion are courage and sincerity.

Many people may judge his character based on his appearance. But, behind is contemptible appearance is a relentless bully, intimidating, aggressive manager that pushes until he get what he wants. Some of his words of choice wasn’t always pleasing to those he spoke to. Gates leadership style frequently included the use of f-bombs, with of his favorite sayings being “That’s the stupidest f--- thing I’ve ever heard!” (Mcilvaine, 2016). It could have broken their motivation but, his intentions were to challenge employees to exceed their previous performance. One trait of his personality can be described as being honest and far from being hypocrisy. Bill Gates once stated “Life is not fair, get use to it.” Developing a strategy to be a success is a good management tool by any business person. It all begins with an honesty, self-evaluation and creating goals. Gates were very truthful to