William Henry Gates III also known as Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955, the second of three children of Mary and William Gates II. Bill Gates has two sisters; she is halfway between an older and younger sister. His father was a prominent and successful Seattle lawyer and the young Bill Gates was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. His mother was a professor, regent of the University of Washington and president of United Way International. His grandfather was the vice president of a national bank and his great-grandfather was a state representative and mayor. Bill Gates showed his ambition and intelligence in his early life. His parents believed he was unchallenged in his public school and decided to enroll him in the high-achieving private school in Lakeside. Bill Gates initially began operating computers in the school. His mother was part of the committee that contributed the computer terminal to the school, which was connected by telephone to a local computer company. Bill Gates and a small group of students including his future business partner and also his childhood friend, Paul Allen, created the Lakeside Programmers Group and used all their time to seize every opportunity to discover the opportunities of new technology and educate yourself on the fundamentals of writing computer programs. The group was even banned from the computer for a few weeks for violating the security program and modifying system data. It turned out that many of the members worked at Microsoft as programmers. Bill Gates later enrolled at Harvard University, but dropped out in 1974 to launch Microsoft with Paul Allen. Bill Gates had met Steve Ballmer at Harvard and they worked... middle of the paper... his. Bill Gates has supremacy in his organization as he leads the management team and takes full authority over the team. Even the meetings that take place with Bill Gates are called “Bill” meetings demonstrate that he is supremacy. He also interrupts the meeting and questions the members involved in the meeting. This shows that Bill Gates is dominant in his organization. Self-confidence Self-confidence is the feeling of believing in your own qualities, judgment and abilities. Bill Gates has strong self-confidence which has contributed enormously to his success. Even in Bill Gates' youth, his self-confidence was evident as he, in his twenties, ran the small Microsoft Corporation, convinced the IBM company to adopt his newly written operating system. If Bill didn't show up full of self-confidence, success wouldn't be possible.