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How to Prepare Your Team for Change on Your First Day at Office
Satya Nadella’s First Email as Microsoft’s CEO is the perfect template
In 2014, Microsoft was valued at $314 billion and was the 8th largest company in the world.
Revenues were dropping, and markets were brushing off Microsoft as a company that would face the same fate as the company it had just acquired: Nokia.
“There’s a sense in the world outside Redmond, Washington, that Microsoft’s best days are behind it, that the sprawling colossus, which employs more than 100,000 people, doesn’t know what it is, or even what it wants to be,” wrote Bethany McLean in Vanity Fair.
Today, its market cap stands at $2 trillion. Making it the second most valuable company in the world, only behind Apple. Its workforce has increased substantially, revenues have doubled, Microsoft office has turned into Office 365, and its cloud business is printing cash like a money minting machine.
What happened to Microsoft between 2014 and today?
Satya Nadella.
A person who spends most time reading books or watching cricket if not solving mind-bending problems at Microsoft.
