GATES BILL. THE NEW APPROACH

same year Gates has translated Microsoft to Redmond (State of Washington). In pine wood the whole small town in which worked already more than 700 employees of firm has been constructed. Each of them had a separate office and the free schedule of work: it was possible to come in 9 evenings, and to leave in 5 mornings, and it is possible and on the contrary. People behaved raskovanno, put on under own discretion, but under this seeming slackness enormous working capacity disappeared. Gates understood that the operating mode of programmers requires the minimum restrictions. It encouraged employment of employees by sports, their various hobbies as it removes stress from the big intellectual loading.

After two years incomes and net profit Microsoft have grown on 80%, having reached 70 million dollars that has made its one of the largest companies on software working out in the world. By 1993 in firm 5200 employees already worked, and the volume of production Microsoft has come nearer to 3 mlrd dollars. In achievement of these good results the huge merit, undoubtedly, belongs to the founder of the company.

Bill Gates - the present workaholic. It still works on the average for 65 hours per week. Coming back home to 9 evenings, it often includes the personal computer and continues to work deeply for a midnight. Holiday for it - luxury. He says that at times sits up behind work to 4 o'clock in the morning. For first five years of work in Microsoft at Bill was only two three-day holidays, and only then he began to have a rest on a week in a year. Once he even has dared to lease a sailing vessel with a command and within the whole four days travelled round coast of Australia.

Since 1995 Gates wins first place in the list of the richest people of the planet published by magazine Forbes. For the next year actions of its firm have considerably gone up in price. If in 1995 its condition was estimated in 12,9 mlrd dollars, in 1996 already in 18 billion