Email: A new business book recommendation. (Germany)
Stimulating, simple book. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO tell’s inside story of continued transformation, tracing his journey from childhood in India to leading most significant changes of digital era. Offers vision for new waves of intelligent technologies.
Hit Refresh is about individual change, transformation happening inside Microsoft, arrival of exciting, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing. Examines how people, organisation’s, societies can transform. ‘Hit Refresh’ is a persistent quest for new energy, ideas, innovation, relevance, renewal.
Great thought’s on stunning scientific leaps, fascinating childhood before immigrating to U.S, how he learnt to lead along the way. Shares his meditation’s as current CEO, mostly unknown following brainy Bill Gates, energetic Steve Ballmer.
At it’s core, one essential quality ’empathy’. How Microsoft re-discovered, transformed everything from culture to partnerships in fiercely competitive landscapes. Nadella introduces equation to restore digital trust, ethical design principles, economic growth.
‘Ideas excite me,’ Nadella. ‘Empathy grounds, centres me.’ A series of recommendations as algorithms, Hit Refresh is an astute contemplation of what lies ahead. Words of wisdom from a conscientious, deliberative leader searching for meaning, purpose, improvement for himself, a leading company, society. Building a legacy.
Worth a read.
