With Hit Refresh, Satya has charted new age leadership principles (a fresh breath) that requires in transformational digital age.
" When Satya Nadella told me he was working on a new book about the future of technology, I couldn’t wait to read it. “Hit Refresh” is a thoughtful guide to an exciting, challenging future." These are the words of the great Bill Gates.
Satya has certainly share many insight with this book. I couldn't wait to read and immediately order an audio book. The book highlights the core issues including organisational change (mainly strategies and culture), change management (old school-boys club to new age leaders rather than managers) and the current-future trends in technologies. Along with these insights - he also managed well to explain his role within.
Here are few nuggets (credits to Jena McGregor, The Washington Post):
How did Satya convince to Microsoft Board for next CEO?
"When they asked if I wanted to be CEO, I said only if they thought I could be a good CEO. The feedback I got was 'look, if you want to be a CEO, you've got to really want it.' But that's not who I am. That's not how I'm wired. I told Steve [Ballmer] that and he said you're right, you're not. You should be who you are. Ultimately the board did what every good board should do. They looked far and wide and then finally made the call and appointed me CEO"
Microsoft was a siloed place, one with many fiefdoms, how did you break that up?
"The difference between a startup and a successful company is you really achieve that lock. If you get the concept right and you get the capability right and you get the culture right and they're all reinforcing each other, you've got your hit.
Now the challenge is what happens ultimately when that concept that you so loved and is such a big hit is no longer driving growth. You've got to come up with a new concept. You've got to enter a new category. In order to do that you need new capabilities and in order to build that you need a culture that enables you to go after the new concept rather than killing it. That's the challenge of any successful company."
What did you learn from your effort (for example women in tech)?
"Okay, what is the thing that I, as the CEO of a company, need to do to to create that system, which allows everybody to feel that we're able to do their best work? The cultural work on a 'growth mindset' [at Microsoft] was in place before [the Grace Hopper conference]. But the fact that I could stumble and make that mistake, it got me to think, 'wow, this is really something you've got to think about much more deeply.' My responsibility has become much more clear to me."
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Hit Refresh - a must read to understand Microsoft's transformation and importance of having a growth mindset
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone – By Satya Nadella”First as an Ex Micrsoftie, I am in absolutely love with Microsoft and I take so much pride in talking about how the years that I spent in MS has helped me shaping my career. While some may disagree, but I firmly believe that impact that Microsoft had on our daily lives is beyond any other technology company. Not just the software, Microsoft clearly were the first company that provided the platform, tools and more importantly the inspiration to dream and design a digital world, as it we know today. Over the time, other tech companies came to their age and outsmarted Microsoft in multiple key areas including Search, Social and Mobile. And then Satya Nadella came to helm he embarked on a journey to re-discover the lost soul of company and make it relevant (and Cool) again.‘Hit Refresh’ is primarily divided into three partsFirst is Satya’s personal story coming from India and arriving at Microsoft in 1992Second is story of Microsoft transformation and steps Satya took to curate the ‘Growth Mindset’ in employeesThird (and favorite) part of where Satya talks about the disruptions and transformation that technology is going to create, which will overcome the existing limits of physics and chemistry and ultimately better the mankindAuthor has been extremely honest and open in talking about the strengths of his competitors and acknowledges the need find the smart ways to partner with companies to learn from each other perspective. There are multiple places in book that made me realize that Satya is a leader who has no fear of being authentic and vulnerable. He actually talked about his biggest fumble at Grace Hopper conference and how working with ‘Frenemies’ Microsoft created more growth opportunities like Office for Mac!The key take away the book offers to its readers is to stay optimistic about what’s to come. As the technology is advancing, the world is changing faster then ever. One definite ways master this change is have a “Growth Mindset”“Don’t Be a Know-It-All, Be a Learn-It-All – Satya Nadella”
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