If by "laughingstock", you mean of the millions of lives that his foundation has saved from infant mortality, thus giving those folks the opportunity to smile and laugh, then I agree with that sentiment.
Kind of with you here. And Paul Allen is a keeping busy [to put it lightly] as well. (Quincy Jones even said he was the only white guy he's met who can play guitar at all. That's high praise)
I think the challenge here is whether Gates should be offering advice on management, as opposed to business. The rise of Microsoft (prior to Ballmer) was famously due less to Gates' skills as a people / organizational manager than to 1) the company's timely dominance of the desktop and 2) expansion of that dominance into monopoly.
As such, why should Gates' endorsement on topics of management or leadership deserve undue attention now?
