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

Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols

How can a large company rediscover its purpose, change its culture and make new technology serve people, as Satya Nadella tried to do at Microsoft?

At a glance

You will see how to move a team from proving it knows to wanting to learn
You will think about partnering with rivals before you need them, not after
You will be able to ask what a company owes the people its products affect, not only what it earns

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Foreword
Chapter 1 From Hyderabad to Redmond How Karl Marx, a Sanskrit Scholar, and a Cricket Hero Shaped My Boyhood
Chapter 2 Learning to Lead Seeing the Cloud Through Our Windows
Chapter 3 New Mission, New Momentum Rediscovering the Soul of Microsoft
Chapter 4 A Cultural Renaissance From Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls
Chapter 5 Friends or Frenemies? Build Partnerships Before You Need Them
Chapter 6 Beyond the Cloud Three Shifts: Mixed Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Quantum Computing
Chapter 7 The Trust Equation Timeless Values in the Digital Age: Privacy, Security, and Free Speech
Chapter 8 The Future of Humans and Machines Toward an Ethical Framework for AI Design
Chapter 9 Restoring Economic Growth for Everyone The Role of Companies in a Global Society
Afterword
Sources and Further Reading
Chapter 1 — From Hyderabad to Redmond
Chapter 2 — Learning to Lead
Chapter 3 — New Mission, New Momentum
Chapter 4 — A Cultural Renaissance
Chapter 5 — Friends or Frenemies?
Chapter 6 — Beyond the Cloud
Chapter 7 — The Trust Equation
Chapter 8 — The Future of Humans and Machines
Chapter 9 — Restoring Economic Growth for Everyone