Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Satya Nadella needs no introduction. He and his team are guiding one the world's most significant high-tech companies. He's the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, and one of only three in their history.
The first time I met him (in 2014, when he was just a handful of weeks in as CEO) I was struck by how deeply he listened, his authentic curiosity to learn, and the clarity of how he organized his thoughts.
It was apparent that he deeply valued, and was going to thoughtfully design, a culture at Microsoft for people to find and connect to their purpose — to experience their life efforts with deep meaning — while at the same time, holding true to their mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
That is so rich. It's what we all want. To live a life of purpose and meaning — and to really make a difference with what we do, and how we do it.
This conversation explores where that comes from for him.
As this conversation unfolds, it became amazingly apparent that at the center of his approach is: empathy — the ability to experience what another person is experiencing, from their perspective.
As most of you know, Pete Carroll and I formed the company Compete to Create to share the insights that he and I have come to understand about how to train the mind to amplify culture and performance — and it’s been a privilege to work inside the organization with the people at Microsoft who have in turn taught us so much about what it means to be great.
I'm excited to introduce Satya to this community; one of the brightest minds our world has to offer. I hope you soak it up…
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| 0:00.0 | Innovation in a company has to come from that deep sense of empathy because we're in the business of meeting unmet, |
| 0:07.0 | unarticulated needs of customers. That's it. There's no way we are going to meet unmet on articulated needs of customers if you don't have that deeper sense of empathy. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:29.7 | And by Trade and Training, I'm a Sport and Performance and performance psychologist and the whole idea behind these conversations is to celebrate those that are on the path of mastery to understand how they view the world to understand what they're searching for, how they make sense of events in their life, |
| 0:45.1 | to understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
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