Exploring how Satya Nadella transformed Microsoft from a stagnant, bureaucratic organization to an agile, innovative company, implementing evidence-based decision making, agility, devolved authority, and embracing vulnerability.
The rules of business are changing. And those rules are being written by some … unlikely characters.
Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of a number of books, including The Geek Way. Mary Long caught up with McAfee to discuss how culture shapes companies – and brings about impressive returns along the way. They discuss:
- The power of “geekiness”
- How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
- And why Amazon *wants* to see billion-dollar failures.
Tickers discussed: AMZN, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, META
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Andrew McAfee
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl
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