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Satya Nadella is a husband, a father, and the chief executive officer of Microsoft-only the third in the company's forty-year history. As much a humanist as a technologist, Nadella defines his mission and that of the company he leads as empowering every person and every organization on the planet mostrar más to achieve more. mostrar menos

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Fecha de nacimiento
1967-08-19
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Hyderabad, India
Ocupaciones
Chief Executive Officer
Organizaciones
Microsoft Corporation

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I wanted to like this book because Satya Nadella is not the typical CEO.

Usually, India born CEOs are either from IIT or IIM or Stanford. He studied at Manipal University. When many of the US migrated Indians are into baseball or basketball, Satya is into cricket and seems like he can play it well too. Satya's father is a Marxist but served in Indian Civil Service. His mother is a Sanskrit scholar. (In another book, Half-Lion, on the ex-Indian Prime Minister and polymath, Narasimha Rao, I read that Rao was present at the wedding of Satya.) Satya's challenge with his special needs kid and his graceful way of handling it. His love for books like Caro Dweck's Mindset or Marshall Goldberg's Non-violent communication. His emphasis on empathy and culture, I can go on. But hold on.

I was expecting this book to be a story about him, his transformation, his learnings on how he influenced such a big organisation like Microsoft and revitalising it. But it was a mega-bore. Other than the first two chapters where he talks about his personal life, cricket and his son, which was mildly interesting, the rest of the book was really boring for me. It read like an internal blog with frequent mentions about Skype or Windows or any Microsoft's product.

If you really want to know about Satya's life, you can simply skip this. This book reminds me of Bill Gates' Business @ Speed of Thought. (Bill is definitely my hero, I love his book recommendations but not this book 😜. )
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Santhosh_Guru | 7 reseñas más. | Oct 19, 2023 |
Equal parts personal, forward thinking, and safe corporate speak. Just ok.
 
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zeh | 7 reseñas más. | Jun 3, 2023 |
An obviously important book, since it comes from the CEO of the most influential and epoch-forming IT corporations of the modern world. Microsoft has shaped, even determined, how we do our day-to-day work, starting with their DOS operating systems, then Windows in its numerous versions, their office productivity suites, communications software, and many more that most of us wouldn't even be able to name, let alone analyse. The CEO, Satya Nadella, describes his humble origins from a remote corner of India, his early years with Microsoft (he is unusually for the present times, a person who has stuck to the same company), and his approach to his grand new position as CEO. He lays emphasis on certain growth areas as the priorities for the future, such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He also stresses the importance of imbuing all the employees and agents of the company with a sense of personal vision and mission. Some of the areas may seem to pander to the self-indulgent lot of computer users, such as games and the alternative universe, but he shows how all these new developments have huge potential in serious applications like medical, educational, science and technology, poverty reduction, and so on. What MS says today, will be the shape of the world tomorrow, so this is a boo worth reading, especially as it is written in an engaging and personal style and is fairly compact.… (más)
 
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Dilip-Kumar | 7 reseñas más. | Feb 7, 2023 |
I was curious about how Satya Nadella (the CEO of Microsoft) thinks about technology and Microsoft, so I asked for this book as a Christmas gift. I was quite surprised.

While he has formal education in electrical engineering and business (so he understands "technology" and tech businesses), I'd describe him as a humanist. To me, that explains a lot of why he has been such an inspiring and successful CEO.

He has thought deeply about why Microsoft exists, i.e. its mission. Why were Bill Gates and Paul Allen creating software back in the mid-1970s? Was it really just about getting a computer on every desktop (running Microsoft software)? He dug deeper and realized that the underlying goal was to give the power of computing to everyone, i.e. to _empower_ everyone, not just rich people or smart people. Then he translated that realization into a succinct one-page mission document for all of Microsoft's 100,000 employees.

The book might be summarized as, "Here's where I come from and how I think, so you can understand me." That makes it useful as a guide for Microsoft employees, partners and customers.

I'm not sure I'd want to work for the Bill Gates of the 1990s, or for Steve Ballmer. They seem too driven and too focused on winning at all costs. But Satya Nadella, I can totally understand why people would want to join his team.
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troymcc | 7 reseñas más. | Jun 30, 2021 |

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