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How Satya Nadella Changed Microsofts Culture First
When Satya Nadella took over Microsoft in 2014, the company was profitable but stagnant, known more for internal rivalry than innovation. This episode drills into the first thing Nadella did: not a product pivot, but a cultural one. He asked employees to shift from 'know-it-alls' to 'learn-it-alls,' and he made empathy a core engineering principle. We trace how that cultural reset led to Azure's cloud dominance, the unlikely embrace of Linux and open source, and the $75 billion Activision deal that repositioned gaming. Nadella's playbook shows that culture…
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