Bangalore: The world has grown to a phase where technology is almost inseparable from human lives.

There are many game changers in the field of technology whose innovative ideas and leadership skills have accelerated this growth. As the world embraces the emerging technologies, these great visionaries have a lot to impart to the new generation who would be the best beneficiaries of these technological advances. Learn the lessons of leadership from these technology stalwarts: 1. Bill Gates

A true game changer in the field of technology, Bill Gates has always stood out in the crowd with his talent and great passion. He proved that formal education or a graduation is not the only way out and the man who is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people says that we need to heed the lessons of failure and it can teach you resiliency. He lectures on how the business should be run and what needs to be learned from customer feedbacks and states, "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." For him, leadership is not just about control, it's about trusting others. The unpredictable character of business might lead to a situation where you end up working for your secretary and Bill Gates puts it this way, "Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."

2. Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Apple defined a generation with his accomplishments and innovative ideas. He is a true visionary who restructured the wor ld of computer hardware and software industry with his legendary products such as Macintosh computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. "Innovation has no limits," he asserts that the only limit is your imagination. He advises the youngsters to think out of the box by being the yardstick of quality. There is no shortcut to excellence and its only absolute commitment that can take you there. "Love what you do and if you haven't found it yet, keep looking, don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it," says the great leader.

3. Michael Dell

Dell traces its origins to 1984, when Michael Dell created PCs Limited while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. The dorm-room headquartered company sold IBM PC-compatible computers built from stock components. Michael Dell started trading in the belief that by selling personal computer systems directly to customers, PCs Limited could better understand customers' needs and provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs.[6] Michael Dell dropped out of school in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business, after getting about $300,000 in expansion-capital from his family.
He is the man who invested his earnings from part-time jobs in stocks when he was in his early teens and today, Michael Saul Dell is one of the richest people in the world. He found Dell in 1984 with $1,000 and an idea to build relationships directly with computer buyers. For Michel Dell, 'failing' is the first rule to keep an edge and he says "When you get a business that changes very quickly, you get some of that naturally. If you want to stay successful, be willing to take risks and change."

4. Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt has been running the show at Google, the internet giant whose stock price has gone from $85 to $581 ever since it went public in 2004. He values the worth of innovat ive ideas and that is the most significant management lesson he preaches. Being the CEO of the world internet leader, Eric Schmidt was keen on providing adequate room for the Googlers to throw out their ideas and he says "One of our not-so-secret weapons is our ideas mailing list: a company wide suggestion box where people can post ideas ranging from parking procedures to the next killer app." He also says that the most important characteristic of an entrepreneur should be that "he is going to do it whether you give him permission or not."

5. Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison was born in New York City to Florence Spellman, an unwed 19-year-old.[5][6] Ellison's biological father was an Italian-American U. S. Air Force pilot, who was stationed abroad before Spellman realized that she had become pregnant by him.[6] After Larry Ellison contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, his mother determined that she was unable to care for him adequately, and arranged for him to be adopted by her aunt and uncle in Chicago.[6] Lillian Spellman Ellison and Louis Ellison adopted him when he was nine months old. Lillian was the second wife of Louis Ellison, an immigrant who had arrived in the United States in 1905 from Russia.[6] Larry Ellison did not meet his biological mother until he was 48.[7] Ellison graduated from Eugene Field Elementary School on Chicago's north side in January, 1958 and attended Sullivan High School at least through the fall of 1959 before moving to South Shore. Ellison was raised in a Reform Jewish family.[8] He grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago's South Shore middle-class Jewish neighborhood. Ellison remembers his adoptive mother as warm and loving, in contrast to his austere, unsupportive, and often distant adoptive father, who adopted the name Ellison to honor his point of entry into the USA, Ellis Island.[6] Louis, his adoptive father, was a modest government employee who had made a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to lose it during the Great Depression.[6] Ellison was a bright but inattentive student. He left the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign at the end of his second year, after not taking his final exams because his adoptive mother had just died. After spending a summer in Northern California, where he lived with his friend Chuck Weiss, he attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he first encountered computer design. In 1964, at 20 years of age, he moved to northern California permanently.

The man who races sailboats, flies planes, and plays tennis and guitar, Larry Ellison, is ranked one of the best CEOs in the world, who runs a business empire that employs more t han 105,000 people worldwide. Known to be a great innovator, Ellison says follow your instinct and develop a clear vision and stick to it. He advises the young breed of entrepreneurs to be 'shrewd' and keep the team on its 'toes'. Larry is known to be very careful when it comes to talent acquisition and he selects new programmers and salespeople who are action oriented and he advises the CIOs to do so to keep the stride of success everlasting.

6. Mark Zuckerberg

World's youngest billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg redefined the concept of social networking with his highly innovative and revolutionary website Facebook. Zuckerberg has been named the Person of the Year in 2010 by the Times magazine. He could identify the area where he could make his innovation successful and it was the inherent human need for interaction that he targeted. He created a venue for them to come together and connect each other without spending any money. He advises the young minds to be open to changes without losing the focus from their goals. Flexibility and willingness are his strengths with which he has been able to change his products to cater the customer demands. He says, "Embrace the developing and emerging technologies and make the best use of them." Zuckerberg was quick to identify the new trends and he kept his business policy well-balanced to adapt to changes. Stick with what you know and do not push something you do not know - this is the best lesson that Zuckerberg's success story teaches us.