That's just the way the IT industry works whether you are providing tech support or managing a multi-billion dollar company.The world’s most successful people do things differently-there’s no way around it.įrom waking up at 3 am every morning to wearing the exact same outfit every single day, there are certain structures and sacrifices that typically need to be made in order to get ahead-even on the off-duty days when the rest of us are holed up on the couch with takeout pizza. Like a lot of us, his day is filled with meetings and technology. Now that you have an idea of how Microsoft's head honcho lives out his day, do you feel that you can relate? I do. When the day has come and gone, Gates puts the kids to bed, and, get this, he reads his e-mail! There's no better way to relax than by reading e-mails that may have slipped past you during the day, right? Yeesh.
But Gates doesn't have one of those, yet. The catch is that some whiteboards within Microsoft can have their screens captured and uploaded to a digital medium. Even though he is surrounded by vast amounts of technology, Gates admits that he still uses whiteboards from time to time.
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Other pieces of technology that Gates uses almost daily include his TabletPC, OneNote, and desktop search software, most likely Windows Desktop Search. After reading the papers, he posts comments that are available to the entire company, and SharePoint helps keep everything organized. Recently, Gates has been preparing for ThinkWeek, where he will read over 100 different papers from Microsoft employees which focus on topics ranging from the company's future to the future of technology in general. And it notifies you if anything comes up in an area you're interested in. It's like having a super-website that lets many people edit and discuss-far more than the standard practice of sending e-mails with enclosures. SharePoint puts me in touch with lots of people deep in the organization. What is a man to do when there is more news than there is time? If that man is Bill Gates, he turns to SharePoint. Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
The other problem is information underload. Staying focused is one issue that's the problem of information overload. Nevertheless, he still runs into information overload. For a man that runs one of the most powerful companies in the world, that may not be as many as you would have thought. Gates receives about 100 e-mails per day that he reads, although many unknown e-mails are filtered out by his personal assistant. He has three monitors in his office that contain his inbox, the current e-mail he is reading, and a browser, respectively. The average day in the life of Bill Gates consists of attending meetings and reading e-mail. Gates gave CNN Money a brief write-up about his daily happenings and the technology that he leverages to get through the day, and it is surprisingly tame. While his house was filled with fancy gadgets and huge rooms, his daily work day is not nearly as extravagant. This week, we get to take a look at how Gates works. Last week, we got to take a virtual tour of Bill Gates' home.
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