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Not just getting rid of Ballmer, but promoting Nadella to the job. That pick was the turning point.

by Isamu 8y ago

DonHopkins 8y ago
Interesting... I don't know much about him. Wikipedia mentions briefly that he worked at Sun. What did he do there, for how long, with whom, and how did that influence his time at Microsoft? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella
- Isamu 8y ago
  I haven't read it but apparently he published an autobiographical book last year: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30835567-hit-refresh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30835567-hit-refresh https://medium.com/@xaviergeerinck/my-key-take-aways-from-reading-satya-nadellas-book-hit-refresh-6c2f07893d5c https://medium.com/@xaviergeerinck/my-key-take-aways-from-re...
  - fernandotakai 8y ago
    i would also recommend his interview with freakonomics podcast http://freakonomics.com/podcast/satya-nadella/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/satya-nadella/
  - DonHopkins 8y ago
    That's a great article by Xavier Geerinck. The part about leaders generating energy is interesting. I wonder what he thought about Scott McNealy's attempts at generating energy by trying to make Microsoft out to be the great enemy of humanity that Sun was going to vanquish, which I though fell flat because you should never let yourself be defined simply in terms of opposition to someone else. When Sun Microsystems fell apart into several different companies, he even named one of them "SunSoft" in opposition to "Microsoft". You've got to have something of your own to be energetic about, without needing an enemy to fight against. For so many years, Java was first and foremost simply a weapon in Sun's arsenal for their much bigger purpose, the raging war against Microsoft. They actually weaponized a programming language, and that was a higher priority than any other consideration. They wasted all that energy they generated around Java in a war overseas, instead of building infrastructure at home.

Not just getting rid of Ballmer, but promoting Nadella to the job. That pick was the turning point.

by Isamu 8y ago

Not just getting rid of Ballmer, but promoting Nadella to the job. That pick was the turning point.

Interesting... I don't know much about him. Wikipedia mentions briefly that he worked at Sun. What did he do there, for how long, with whom, and how did that influence his time at Microsoft? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella

Isamu 8y ago
I haven't read it but apparently he published an autobiographical book last year: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30835567-hit-refresh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30835567-hit-refresh https://medium.com/@xaviergeerinck/my-key-take-aways-from-reading-satya-nadellas-book-hit-refresh-6c2f07893d5c https://medium.com/@xaviergeerinck/my-key-take-aways-from-re...
- fernandotakai 8y ago
  i would also recommend his interview with freakonomics podcast http://freakonomics.com/podcast/satya-nadella/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/satya-nadella/
- DonHopkins 8y ago
  That's a great article by Xavier Geerinck. The part about leaders generating energy is interesting. I wonder what he thought about Scott McNealy's attempts at generating energy by trying to make Microsoft out to be the great enemy of humanity that Sun was going to vanquish, which I though fell flat because you should never let yourself be defined simply in terms of opposition to someone else. When Sun Microsystems fell apart into several different companies, he even named one of them "SunSoft" in opposition to "Microsoft". You've got to have something of your own to be energetic about, without needing an enemy to fight against. For so many years, Java was first and foremost simply a weapon in Sun's arsenal for their much bigger purpose, the raging war against Microsoft. They actually weaponized a programming language, and that was a higher priority than any other consideration. They wasted all that energy they generated around Java in a war overseas, instead of building infrastructure at home.