Gates: Being tough on yourself makes you a poor early manager
Bill Gates · Bill Gates x Nikhil Kamath Part 2 | People by WTF | Ep.8 · Nikhil Kamath · Apr 11, 2025 · at 15:09
Bill Gates reflects on his early leadership style at Microsoft and how his demanding nature towards himself negatively affected his management of diverse talent.
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“And it makes you, at first, maybe not a very good manager, because you tend to manage people like you manage yourself, where you're just so tough on them, and, you know, for me, that meant that in my early days, I could get a lot out of people who were like me, and You know, so I probably missed some people who were very different than me that could have been, you know, part of the company.”
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