Satya Nadella Quotes
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One brilliant character who does not put team first can destroy the entire team.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
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Leadership means making choices and then rallying the team around those choices.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
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To be a leader in this company, your job is to find the rose petals in a field of shit.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
(Nadella writes about what he told about 150 top leaders: that once you become a vice president, the whining is over. You can't say the coffee around here is bad, or there aren't enough good people, or I didn't get the bonus. He wanted them to stop seeings all the things that are hard and start seeing things that are great and helping others see them too.)
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My approach is to lead with a sense of purpose and pride in what we do, not envy or combativeness.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
(Nadella writes that while Microsoft is known for rallying the troops with competitive fire and motivate them with competitive zeal, that is not his approach.)
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Constraints are real and will always be with us, but leaders are the champions of overcoming constraints.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
leadership
The first principle is to compete vigorously and with passion in the face of uncertainty and intimidation.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
(on leadership principles that he learned from the game of cricket.)
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A second principle is simply the importance of putting your team first, ahead of your personal statistics and recognition.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
(on leadership principles that he learned from the game of cricket.)
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Why does Microsoft exist? And why do I exist in this new role? These are questions everyone in every organization should ask themselves.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
(When Nadella was named the new CEO of Microsoft to succeed Steve Ballmer, he flet that in order to lead effectively he needed to get clarity on these questions.)
An empathetic leader needs to be out in the world, meeting people where they live and seeing how the technology we create affects their daily activities.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
(Nadella writes that empathy is an important quality in a leader, but it is impossible to be an empathetic leader sitting in an office behind a computer screen all day.)
leadership
A leader must see the external opportunities and the internal capability and culture—and all of the connections among them—and respond to them before they become obvious parts of the conventional wisdom.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
leadership
My personal philosophy and my passion, developed over time and through exposure to many different experiences, is to connect new ideas with a growing sense of empathy for other people. Ideas excite me. Empathy grounds and centers me.
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Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
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