Say what our descendants will be remembered, or not, is a perilous exercise. Yet this is the bet that did Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the tipping point, a Conference in the Toronto public library, arguing that history would remember more than Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, reports The Verge.
According to Gladwell, amorality (the absence of moral sense in the decision-making) is an essential feature to be a leader who has success. He adds:
"There is no moral leaders, if they were moral leaders would not big businessmen".
In his latest book, Outliers, the author a success already tried to explain the factors that separate the people very well successful people to mean success, says CNN.
Bill Gates, as Steve Jobs, as head of Microsoft for one and Apple to the other, were "capitalists without mercy". But the difference is that Bill Gates, once retired, turned this amoral behavior by spending all his money in philanthropic projects.
Since 1994, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given more than 2.6 billion (EUR 2.06 billion) for works of charity throughout the world, says CBS. Gladwell says that there are statues of him in the poor, notammeng countries because, "with its money, there is a chance that we can eradicate malaria".
And this is precisely why that is remembered in fifty years of Bill Gates, according to Gladwell, and not not for what he has done with Microsoft. Because, if today we idealize the businessmen for their ability to create wealth, on the long remembered more of their impact on the world.
During the Conference he also made unflattering comments about Steve Jobs:
"All the ideas he has ever had came from someone else." And it was the first to say. He has attributed the merit of many things. He had no shame. It was a businessman and entrepreneur extraordinary and brilliant.
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