Bill Gates says that Satia Nadella was “almost” transferred to the CEO of Microsoft


  • Bill Gates revealed that Satia Nadella has been almost transferred to the CEO of MicrosoftDespite the strong support of Gates and Steve Ballmer, but it has since led the company to record success. Thinking about leadership, Gates praised Nadella’s sympathy approach, and his interview with the early Microsoft culture of difficult leadership, and emphasized the importance of humor and the ability to adapt to navigating challenges.

Although Microsoft may be synonymous with the leadership of Bill Gates, it was Satya Nadella that led the company to a record share price and put the company as a major competitor in the artificial intelligence markets and the cloud account.

After Gates, the man who founded the work now V -2.9 trillion dollarsNadila said almost for the top round. This was despite the fact that former executives of the technology giant – himself and behind him Steve Palmer – had highlighted a club for this position.

Focus now on his charitable work, Gates He said in an interview this week It was emotional to hand over the title of CEO of the company: “I will tear this, because this means a lot to me. I had Khalfan, and a boy, do I feel lucky because I went to perform the basic work, and the only thing that afflicted me is: Was I I saw the company fading from its distinction?

“Will I be inhabited: Should I return, should I not return?”

Gates stepped as CEO of Microsoft in 2000 and was replaced by Steve Palmer, where he was recruited by Gates in 1980 to be the first business manager.

In 2013, Palmer retired from work, with speculation about who will lead one of the largest companies in the world.

Speaking to Brad Smith, Vice President and President of Microsoft, Gates said: “The fact that Steve took us [Microsoft] To new horizons and the fact that through a process I made almost a wrong decision – although you and Steve were never to know Satya would be good, and it was better to move in what remains today one of the complexity of the CEO of the world – makes me feel so good that I can reach a big role in playing the role of products, and learning about some help in work.

“It was allowed to throw everything and have the amazing resources that my Microsoft ownership has created.”

Gates has long praised friendship and leadership of Nadila, and he told Wall Street Journal Previously, in some ways he is behind him is a better leader.

In 2017, I told Gates magazine: “I have come to the value of sympathy more throughout my career. [at the office, thinking]“Oh, you are five percent slower as a programmer? You don’t belong here.” It was very solid.

“I think this industry has matured, so what is expected from the CEO. Satia has a natural ability to work well with many people, to tell people that they are wrong in a nice way and allow notes to reach it more than it did.”

luck She arrived at Microsoft to comment but had no response.

He leads with humor

Smith and Gates also reflected their work together in the early first decade of the twentieth century, when C-Suite was pulled into Microsoft in front of Anti -monopoly trial He claims to dominate the web browser.

While Gates admitted that his sense of humor was not more suitable for deposition, he was an important aspect of his leadership.

“I am not trying to make anyone feel sorry for me, because my life is not sorry,” Gates is reflected. “But I think there are some lessons about the way we went through what I felt like that could have killed the company completely … and so through this intensity, you must have a sense of humor.

“There was that time when I was witnessing and during the break, the writer came to me and says,” Mr. Gates, I know people who have a grant, and what do you do in the capital? “And all my complicated testimony on that day, the press covered that man next to me and made me look at least a young person at least from my picture at that time.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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