Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella

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Nadella recounts his transformation of Microsoft from a know-it-all culture to a learn-it-all culture, pivoting the company to cloud and AI while rebuilding strategic partnerships with former rivals. By last name, Nadella argues that empathy, growth mindset, and a reinvigorated mission are the true foundations of enterprise strategy in the age of ambient intelligence.

Published:: 2017
Pages:: 288

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In this collection, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone references 3 other books.

It draws on Mindset, The Effective Executive and The Innovators.

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Nadella explicitly credits Dweck's Mindset as the inspiration for Microsoft's cultural shift from know-it-all to learn-it-all, which he made required reading for his leadership team

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Mindset

by Carol Dweck

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Invokes Drucker's view of management from The Effective Executive when arguing that culture eats strategy and that the CEO's job is to set priorities and enable others to contribute

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The Effective Executive

by Peter Drucker

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References Isaacson's The Innovators when discussing Microsoft's place in the lineage of personal computing pioneers and the collaborative nature of technological progress

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The Innovators

by Walter Isaacson

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