I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
SATYA NADELLAOne of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.
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That means at times we’ll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.
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In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications.
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The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives.
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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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The way I measure my life is ‘Am I better than I was last year?’
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That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.
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A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says ‘Something Happened’. Well, that’s not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.
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This is a software-powered world.
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Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
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Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.
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Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there’s someone new who’s born with a new idea.
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This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we’re now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.
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Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.
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You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
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If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can’t really look at every failure as a failure, you’ve got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.
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