Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Micro .ft Corp., speaks at the Bloomberg event on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.
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Satya Nadella, CEO of MicroSFT, is not an executive type of boasting and running the competition. Since taking over from the more articulate Steve Ballmer seven years ago, he has become more measured, formed alliances with challengers such as Red Hat and Salesforce, and made it possible for people to use Amazon’s Alexa Assistant in Windows operating systems.
On Thursday he put his more peaceful approach into words when Jeff Ryke, a former executive at MicroSFT, asked him what leadership advice he offers in the company.
“It’s just that my team is great and everyone succeeds,” Nadella said at an economic summit event hosted by Stanford University’s Institute for Economic Policy Research. “In a multi-stakeholder, multi-component world, you have to bring people together in and out of your enterprise.”
In addition to being critical of the efforts of competitors such as Ball Paul and Google, Nadella also differs from her peers at other major tech companies, including Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Salesforce’s Mark Benioff.
Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 while co-founder Bill Gates was still in charge. But Nadella is also different from Gates. In a 2013 ask-in-nothing session on Reddit, he wrote that despite Google’s share of Google in Internet search, “seriously Bing is a better product at the moment.”
In contrast, Nadella’s micro .ft has become more tolerant than other forces in the business. In the past, open source software was seen as a competition, Microsoft bought the open source code storage service GitHub for રમાં 7.5 billion in 2018, and the company incorporated the Linux open-source operating operating system into Windows.
When Nadella draws uniqueness from competitors, she speaks less about it. He said at Microsoft’s Ignite conference on Tuesday that, for example, “no customer wants to be dependent on a provider that sells them technology on one side and competes with them on the other” – possibly referring to Amazon, some of those who participated. With cloud customers.
Here are some of the other leadership issues Nadella mentioned in the virtual event:
- “Leaders have an innate ability to bring this precarious situation, ambiguity and clarity … Leaders are not people who go into confusion and create more confusion. They really create clarity, and that’s one thing that leaders are fully accountable for. You have to hold on. “
- “Leaders produce energy. You know when you visit a leader because you came out saying ‘Wow, I want to join the parade. I want to be part of that team.’
- “Leaders don’t say ‘give me the perfect pitch to perform.’ I can’t say, ‘I have to wait for an epidemic to show my leadership skills.’ In many cases you have to take the trouble and control yourself, especially the team you are leading, so that they can move on. “
Nadella said no one becomes perfect. But he asks himself if he is better than he was yesterday.
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