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Business Weekly: Steering a tech giant with Satya Nadella

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Intelligence Squared

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4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Satya Nadella is one of the world’s most inspirational business leaders; as much a humanist as a technologist and executive. In September 2017, he came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his personal journey from a childhood in India to becoming Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation with journalist and author Kamal Ahmed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest

0:06.2

But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of

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Turbine change people like Pauline from Kenya

0:16.4

Drought has killed nearly all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis

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It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life

0:28.5

But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar-powered

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She now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school with your help

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practical action can do even more

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regenerating depleted land into productive farms

0:50.5

repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups

0:55.4

Please take action today and turn your hope for a better future into reality

0:59.5

Your donation can help build a world where the lives and livelihoods of the world's poorest people are no longer at the mercy of climate change or

1:07.3

Environmental degradation while there's still time visit practical action dot org to get involved

1:12.9

Welcome to intelligent squared business weekly this week we revisit a discussion with Microsoft CEO Satyanda Dela in

1:19.3

September 2017 he came to intelligent squared to discuss his personal journey from a child on in India to the very top of one of the world's

1:27.5

Biggest tech companies in conversation with journalist and author Kamal Ahmed now. Let's go to the episode

1:36.4

Welcome everybody. I'm Kamal Ahmed the economic editor of the BBC

1:40.9

welcome Satyanda to London flu in today

1:44.3

I'm going to let you into a little secret as the economic editor of the BBC and formally business editor of the Sunday

1:50.5

Telegraph I get an awful lot of books written by chief executives and

1:57.5

98% of them are abysmal

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