{"id":58,"date":"2017-10-01T00:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T00:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/?p=58"},"modified":"2017-10-01T00:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T00:19:42","slug":"follow-the-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/icandothis\/2017\/10\/01\/follow-the-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow The Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I chose to follow Mr Bill Gates. He is the founder or Microsoft and one of the richest men on earth. But he is also the world&#8217;s leading philanthropist. I followed him on Facebook and Twitter. I also read Wikipedia to learn more about his early life .<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gates<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BillGates\/<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"676\" data-height=\"1000\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillGates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by BillGates<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The one quality\u00a0 that really impressed me was his encouragement of his successor. When Mr Satya Nadela took over as the CEO of Microsoft in 2014 , Mr Gates reportedly said to him\u00a0 \u201c don\u2019t try to be like me \u201c . Mr Nadela\u2019s interpretation of this was very enlightening ; he took this to mean 2 things- one, was that it was foolish to try and replicate founders; his second inference was that Mr Gates was encouraging him to develop his own style of leadership . Mr Gates also praised\u00a0 Mr Nadela , at his own expense . He said Mr Nadela was\u00a0 &#8220;naturally great at a skill that took him years to learn- how to deliver feedback with empathy. &#8221; As a de-facto team leader in many clinical situations in my practice , I often rely on other team members for patient education, scheduling etc. I also interact with specialists from other fields in my daily patient care . I appreciate their involvement, and believe in letting each member of the team feel empowered to bring in their unique experiences and perspective to try and provide better care to our patients .<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years Mr Gates has been dedicating his time and money towards promoting health and literacy in poor communities, mostly in Asia and Africa . Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ,\u00a0he has funded projects to make health care more available and affordable . He has also been promoting vaccination and women&#8217;s health, which are issues I feel very strongly about . Being a health care provider myself, I believe we all need to step up our charitable and philanthropic contributions, and be more involved in communities that need help .<\/p>\n<p>Most of the twitter and Facebook feed I was able to gather was from Mr Gates&#8217; followers, with an occasional contribution from Mr Gates himself . \u00a0 He has 39.2 million followers on Twitter ! My advice to Mr Gates would be to use this platform to reach out to people who\u00a0 want to be more involved in charity , but don&#8217;t know where to start, or how to contribute. He could also enlist more volunteers\u00a0 to work with him in his projects. The benefits of this are twofold- he gets more manpower, and people from privileged backgrounds get exposure to the lives of the not-so-fortunate. Talk to your followers Mr Gates !<\/p>\n<p>A disturbing ( to me ) piece of information I found about him in Wikipedia was that during his early days at Microsoft, he was known to be verbally combative and berated his managers for perceived holes in their business strategies [1][2] . I wasn&#8217;t able to discern whether this is still his leadership style. Doesn&#8217;t seem like it is, from what I recently learnt about his comments to the new Microsoft CEO . But I definitely do not agree with this style of leadership, where a leader believes in reprimanding their followers\/ employees as a means of getting the best out of them . In my opinion encouragement , kindness and nurturing are more likely to bring about loyalty and efficiency from one&#8217;s followers than harsh words. Those in leadership roles should remember, nobody wants too be &#8216; mediocre&#8217; or to deliberately do a bad job. Different people just have different capabilities .<\/p>\n<p>On his Facebook page, he lists his personal interests as &#8211; Philanthropy, Energy, Education, Health, Global Development . If we were to take these &#8216; interests &#8216;as the principles by which he lives his life, I think they align very closely to my principles. I strongly believe that all of us should look beyond ourselves, seek a charitable cause that we can contribute to . In one of his tweets he said &#8221; disease and poverty are solvable &#8221; .\u00a0There are a lot of issues the world is dealing with today that are solvable,\u00a0 so those who are in a position to make a difference need to get involved.\u00a0In another tweet he was quoted\u00a0 &#8221; Don&#8217;t wallow in failure . Instead learn from it &#8221; . We all have or will have to face failure at some point in our lives. I agree with Mr Gates that dwelling on failure is self-defeating, instead we should use failure as a learning experience and move on .<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rensin, David (1994). &#8220;The Bill Gates Interview&#8221;. Playboy<\/li>\n<li>Ballmer, Steve ( October 9,1997). &#8220;Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript- Church Hill Club &#8220;. Microsoft. Archived from The Original On April 20, 2008. Retrieved March 31, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I chose to follow Mr Bill Gates. He is the founder or Microsoft and one of the richest men on earth. But he is also the world&#8217;s leading philanthropist. I followed him on Facebook and Twitter. 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