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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Satya Nadella on growth mindsets

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This year, we’re cultivating informed optimism. Curiosity and flexibility live at the heart of this journey. In other words: we need to employ a growth mindset and prioritize willingness to learn rather than accept our intelligence as a static thing. To help us set the tone for the year ahead, we’re turning back to one of our all-time favorite interviews. In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to learn about the curiosity which imbues his life, the benefits of practicing a growth mindset, and his vision for Microsoft’s future. Follow Satya Nadella on LinkedIn Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir here. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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0:00.0

Hey you, I'm Andrew Seaman.

0:05.6

Do you want a new job or do you want to move forward in your career?

0:09.9

Well, you should listen to my weekly show called Get Hired with Andrew Seaman.

0:14.7

We talk about it all, and it's waiting for you, yes you, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:23.2

LinkedIn News

0:28.8

Hey, it's Jesse coming at you this week with an episode from our archive,

0:32.5

and this one is exactly on target for our year about informed optimism.

0:38.8

I'm bringing you a conversation with the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella.

0:43.9

Microsoft, by the way, owns this company LinkedIn.

0:47.6

But that's not why I had Satya on the show.

0:51.0

I first met Satya many years before I came to work here when I was a writer at Wired.

0:56.6

He had been in the role of CEO of Microsoft just a year,

1:00.0

but he had spent most of his career at this company.

1:03.2

And I got to write the cover story, the first cover story that Wired did about his tenure at Microsoft.

1:10.4

It was a pretty amazing story, of course, for the work that he has done.

1:14.6

But what jumped out to me was his character, his empathy, his strong ability to have real vision and trust in people.

1:24.2

And that's what I wanted to explore in this episode.

1:26.9

That and this really big idea that he had, that he introduced me to for the first time,

1:32.2

and that has subsequently become so key to our show.

1:35.8

That idea is the idea of growth mindset, of building up the potential in the promise

1:41.4

for people to believe that they can change.

1:44.2

Isn't that what leadership should be?

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