nsane.forums Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Steve Jobs has received well-deserved public acclaim, but Bill Gates might be a businessperson to admire, and the model for our children to emulate.Since his death, Steve Jobs has received an enormous amount of well-deserved public acclaim. But a piece in the Harvard Business Review argues that Bill Gates, not Steve Jobs, should be the businessperson we most admire, and be the model for our children to emulate.The piece was written by Maxwell Wessel, who is a researcher at the Harvard Business School's think tank that focuses on innovation, the Forum for Growth and Innovation.His central argument is that although Steve Jobs was a visionary and likely "our generation's most important leader in the world of business," Bill Gates was a better model for us as complete people. He says:While Jobs should be who MBAs and industrial designers try to emulate, I'm not sure he's who we should idolize. That respect should be bestowed on someone we talk less and less about, Bill Gates.His argument is simple: Bill Gates sees his ultimate legacy as helping others and changing the world via philanthropy, while Steve Jobs saw his ultimate legacy as building a great company. He quotes from a note that Gates sent to the Harvard community: "I hope you will reflect on what you’ve done with your talent and energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you work to address the world’s deepest inequities, on how well you treat people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity."Then Wessel concludes:As much as I love Apple, Inc, I would happily give up my iPhone to put food on the plates of starving children. Steve Jobs turned his company into a decade long leader in the truly new space of mobile computing. Bill Gates decided to eliminate malaria. Who do you think we should be putting up on a pedestal for our children to emulate?Not to take anything away from Steve Jobs, but I absolutely concur with Wessel's conclusion. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soriano Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 i agree!. I will always admire Bill Gates =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 +1 Jobs hoarded his money, and gates decided to spend some to help others. if i could go to a bar and have a drink with just one of these guys, no question it would be Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majithia23 Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Bill Gates -- almost 28 billion US Dollars to charity :o ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation ) ...Steve Jobs -- Zero ..... <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x3r0 Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Bill Gates -- almost 28 billion US Dollars to charity :o ( https://en.wikipedia...ates_Foundation ) ...Steve Jobs -- Zero ..... <_<Perhaps Steve Jobs somehow get managed to spend his money to charity anonymously... who knows? Anonymous charity is much better than known charity in some religions. i don't admire Jobs, the way he does to the his employees, high prices of Apple -- all of it I really hate it. But I just talking about charity, when it comes to choose someone to be admire, Bill Gates is my choice too. Microsoft has come all the way become not just only selling OS to computer users, but also up to providing enterprise solution, which I don't think Apple would get in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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