Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone / Satya Nadella with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols
By: Nadella, Satya [author].
Contributor(s): Shaw, Greg (Microsoft executive) [author] | Nichols, Jill Tracie [author].
Publisher: London : William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xi, 272 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008247652.Subject(s): Nadella, Satya | Microsoft Corporation -- History | Businessmen -- United States -- Biography | Computer software industry -- United States | Technology -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index
Foreword / by Bill Gates -- From Hyderabad to Redmond: how Karl Marx, a Sanskrit scholar, and a cricket hero shaped my boyhood -- Learning to lead: seeing the Cloud through our Windows -- New mission, new momentum: rediscovering the soul of Microsoft -- A cultural renaissance: from know-it-alls to learn-it-alls -- Friends or frenemies?: build partnerships before you need them -- Beyond the Cloud: three shifts: mixed reality, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing -- The trust equation: timeless values in the digital age: privacy, security, and free speech -- The future of humans and machines: toward an ethical framework for AI design -- Restoring economic growth for everyone: the role of companies in a global society
"Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era and offering his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies. Hit Refresh is about individual change, the transformation happening inside Microsoft, and the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced--including artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It examines how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform, how they must 'hit refresh' in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. Yet at its core, it's about humans and how one of our essential qualities--empathy--will become ever more valuable in a world where technological advancement will alter the status quo as never before. In addition to his thoughts on these stunning scientific leaps, Satya Nadella discusses his fascinating childhood before immigrating to the U.S. and how he learned to lead along the way. He then shares his meditations as sitting CEO--one who is mostly unknown following the brainy Bill Gates and energetic Steve Ballmer. He explains how the company rediscovered its soul--transforming everything from its culture to its business partnerships to the fiercely competitive landscape of the industry itself. Nadella concludes by introducing an equation to restore digital trust, ethical design principles, and economic growth for everyone. 'Ideas excite me,' Nadella explains. 'Empathy grounds and centers me.' A series of recommendations presented as algorithms, Hit Refresh is an astute contemplation of what lies ahead from a conscientious, deliberative leader searching for improvement--for himself, for a storied company, and for society."--Jacket