199 Quotes by Satya Nadella

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

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    I knew that to lead effectively I needed to get some things square in my own mind – and, ultimately, in the minds of everyone who works at Microsoft. Why does Microsoft exist? And why do I exist in this new role? These are questions everyone in every organization should ask themselves. I worried that failing to ask these questions, and truly answer them, risked perpetuating earlier mistakes and, worse, not being honest.

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    But envy is negative and outer-directed, not driven from within, and so I knew that it wouldn’t carry us very far down the path to true renewal.

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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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    If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups or downs of life. And only then would you be ready to develop that deeper sense of empathy and compassion for everything around you.

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    Despite all this rapid change in the computing industry, we are still at the beginning of the digital revolution.

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    What I remembered was the lesson that went unheeded: the urgent need to build shared context, trust, and credibility with your team.

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    The key to the culture change was individual empowerment.

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