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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

✍️ Top Quotes From the Book

• She always believed in doing your thing, and at your pace. Pace comes when you do your thing. So long as you enjoy it, do it mindfully and well, and have an honest purpose behind it, life won’t fail you.
• I think that is perhaps the number one thing that leaders have to do: to bolster the confidence of the people you’re leading.
• Ultimately, Bing would prove to be a great training ground for building the hyper-scale, cloud-first services that today permeate Microsoft. We weren’t just building Bing, we were building the foundational technologies that would fuel Microsoft’s future.
• I wanted to make deals, but I also wanted to learn more about how they engineered their products to stay fresh. I found that the key was agility, agility, agility. We needed to develop speed, nimbleness, and athleticism to get the consumer experience right, not just once but daily.
• The one irrefutable truth is that in any large organization, any transformation that is to ‘stick’ must come from within.
• Leadership means making choices and then rallying the team around those choices.
• But envy is negative and outer-directed, not driven from within, and so I knew that it wouldn’t carry us very far down the path to true renewal.
• I like to think that the C in CEO stands for culture. The CEO is the curator of an organization’s culture.
• Culture change is hard. It can be painful. The fundamental source of resistance to change is fear of the unknown. Really big questions for which there are no certain answers can be scary.
• The first is to bring clarity to those you work with. This is one of the foundational things leaders do every day, every minute.
• Second, leaders generate energy, not only on their own teams but across the company.
• Third, and finally, they find a way to deliver success, to make things happen.
• Employees. Customers. Products. Partners. Each element needs time, attention, and focus if I’m going to create the value for which I am ultimately accountable. All four are important, and without discipline even the best managers can overlook one or more.