Satya Nadella: Don't Be Brilliant, Be Curious

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Satya Nadella embodies a growth mindset – a philosophy that prioritizes the willingness to learn over the gift of being naturally brilliant. In this episode, the Microsoft CEO shares with Jessi why he's centered his career around curiosity, where he thinks Microsoft is going in the future, and what he thinks about the role of the modern corporation.

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0:00.0	I'm Kwame Christian and I am the CEO of the American Negotiation Institute and I want
0:05.2	you to check out my podcast Negotiate Real Change.
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0:11.2	learn the secrets behind what it really takes to become a successful advocate, ally, and
0:15.5	changemaker in your organization.
0:17.5	Check out Negotiate Real Change on your favorite podcast player.
0:24.7	From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday, a show
0:29.3	about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:34.6	We all have fundamental qualities, those things that we've learned over time to be true
0:38.6	about ourselves.
0:39.6	Like me, I'm a good writer, I'm pretty intuitive, I'm not great at writing headlines.
0:45.8	So I want to start this week with a question for you.
0:48.7	Are you the kind of person who believes that these qualities are fixed or do you think
0:53.6	you can change and improve?
0:56.0	This week's guest has a strong point of view on the answer.
0:58.8	If you take two kids in school, one of them has more innate capability but is annoyed
1:03.2	all.
1:04.2	The other person has less innate capability but is a learned all.
1:07.8	You know how the story ends, the learned all does better than the annoyed all.
1:11.7	That Satya Nadella, he's the CEO of Microsoft, which technically means he's my boss since
1:17.0	Microsoft owns LinkedIn.
1:19.2	But I've known him since I was at Wired, right after he became CEO, and this idea he has
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