Leadership Lessons: The MV Co Is Having (not) a Nadellaissance (maybe Satyaissance)

Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap.

Subash CV
2 min readMay 5, 2019

Satya means truth.

Bloomberg calls it the miracle of MS. Miracle happens on the rock solid human values, Satya, Dharma, Shanti, Prema, Ahimsa.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-05-02/the-miracle-of-microsoft-how-satya-nadella-turned-the-company-around-video

“I would be disgusted if somebody ever celebrated our market cap,” — In an era when hubris is used freely to explain leadership, this is an exception. The opposite is servant leadership, to serve the employees, customers, all stakeholders, including society/environment.

Master calls it #I2We2He

“We’re learning how not to look at the past.” — coaching is about manifesting the future, irrespective of the present. That is transformational leadership.

Nadella calls corporate “empathy” and a shift of his team from a “fixed mindset” to a “growth mindset.” — hence, Satyaissance.

“I don’t know of any other software company in the history of technology that fell onto hard times and has recovered so well,” says Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — Rockstar Ballmer to Satya. Monkey-boy antics belonged to that era, consciousness. Now it belongs to truth, et al.

A lifelong fan, he keeps a bat autographed by the great batsman Sachin Tendulkar near his desk — that makes it human. You can not take cricket out of an Indian.

  • Cloud, cloud, cloud: that is a story for future.

Nadella wrote off $7.6 billion from Ballmer’s purchase of Nokia Corp., cutting 7,800 jobs in 2015, a clear sign he was giving up on an ambition to compete directly with Google and Apple Inc. in mobile — that is affirmative, visionary, transactional leadership. You need guts to do that. All credit to Bill Gates, MS board.

“Microsoft is cool again.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company

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Subash CV
Subash CV

Written by Subash CV

Leadership Coach, ICF Mentor Coach, Healer. Former Banker. Dog lover. Aspiring author. Used to be an aspiring singer.

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