I discovered Buddha did not set out to found a world religion. He set out to understand why one suffers. I learned that only through living life’s ups and downs can you develop empathy; that in order not to suffer, or at least not to suffer so much, one must become comfortable with impermanence.

— Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella Quotes

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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Instead of thinking of you working for Microsoft, think of how Microsoft can work for you.

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Listening was the most important thing I accomplished each day because it would build the foundation of my leadership for years to come.

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Un personaje brillante que no pone primero al equipo puede destruirlo por completo.

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The questions required a lot of soul-searching. What is my vision? What is the strategy to achieve it? What does success look like and where to get started? Now, a few months later, I reflected on what I had written and the process that led to this day.

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The bigger a company, the more responsibility its leader has to think about the world, its citizens and their long term opportunities.

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After all, how we experience the world is through communications and collaboration. If we are interested in machines that work with us, then we can’t ignore the humanistic approach.

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Leadership means making choices and then rallying the team around those choices. One thing I had learned from my dad’s experience as a senior Indian government official was that few tasks are more difficult than building a lasting institution. The choice of leading through consensus versus fiat is a false one. Any institution-building comes from having a clear vision and culture that works to motivate progress both top-down and bottom-up.

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The number one thing that you have to do as a leader: to bolster the confidence of the people you lead.

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Trust is more than a handshake. It’s the agreement, the bond, between users of digital services and the suppliers of those services that enables us to enjoy, be productive, learn, explore, express, create, be informed.

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Alan Kay quips, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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Leadership means making choices and then rallying the team around those choices.

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The key to the culture change was individual empowerment.

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Finally, trust is the foundation upon which everything we do is built. That’s why we’ve invested heavily in security and compliance that set the standard for enterprises.

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If we can connect what we stand for as individuals with what this company is capable of, there is very little we can’t accomplish.

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I do have a bias for which I am unapologetic... for driving investment toward technological advancements... that help people create, connect, and become more productive rather than software that is simply entertaining – memes for conspicuous consumption. Spillover effects on the economy are pretty limited for technologies that don’t foster a more equitable ratio of consumption to creation.

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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet,” the Danish Nobel physicist Niels Bohr once said.

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Consistency is better than perfection!

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First, we needed to obsess about our customers. At the core of our business must be the curiosity and desire to meet a customer’s unarticulated and unmet needs with great technology.

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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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