• Bill Gates revealed that Satia Nadella had been almost transferred for Microsoft The role of the CEO, Despite the strong support of Gates and Steve Ballmer, but it has since led the company to score success. Thinking about leadership, Gates praised Nadella’s sympathy approach, and his interview with the early Microsoft culture of difficult leadership, and emphasized the importance of humor and the ability to adapt to navigating challenges.

While Microsoft may be synonymous with the leadership of Bill Gates, it is so Satia Nadila Who directed business to a standard share price and put action as a major competitor in artificial intelligence markets and cloud computing markets.

After Gates, the man who founded the work now V -2.9 trillion dollarsHe said Nadila was passed almost for the highest round. This was despite the fact that the former chiefs of technology giant – Gates himself and his successor, Steve Palmer – highlighted a club for this position.

Focus now on his charitable work, Gates He said in an interview this week It was emotional to hand over the title of CEO of the company: “I will tear this, because this means a lot to me. I had Khalfan, and a boy, do I feel lucky because I went to perform the basic work, and the only thing that afflicted me is: Was I I saw the company fading from its distinction?

“Will I be inhabited: Should I return, should I not return?”

Gates stepped as CEO of Microsoft in 2000 and was replaced by Steve Palmer, who was recruited by Gates in 1980 to be the first business manager.

In 2013, Palmer retired from work, with speculation about who will lead one of the largest companies in the world.

Speaking to Brad Smith, Vice President and President of Microsoft, Gates said: “The fact that Steve took us [Microsoft] To new horizons and the fact that through a process I made almost a wrong decision – although you and Steve have never hesitated to know Satia will be goodAnd it was better to move in what remains to this day, one of the positions of the CEO of the world – makes me feel so good that I can just reach and play a big role in making product reviews, learning about artificial intelligence, and getting some help from Microsoft on the work I do.

“It was allowed to throw everything and have the amazing resources that my Microsoft ownership has created.”

Long gates He praised the friendship and leaders of NadilaInforming Wall Street Journal Previously, in some ways he is behind him is a better leader.

In 2017, I told Gates magazine: “I have come to the value of sympathy more throughout my career. [at the office, thinking]”Oh, you are five percent slower as a programmer? You don’t belong here. It was very solid.

“I think this industry has matured, so what is expected from the CEO. Satia has a natural ability to work well with many people, to tell people that they are wrong in a nice way and allow notes to reach it more than it did.”

luck She arrived at Microsoft to comment but had no response.

He leads with humor

Smith and Gates also reflected their work together in the early first decade of the twentieth century, when C-Suite was pulled into Microsoft in front of Anti -monopoly trial He claims to dominate the web browser.

While Gates admitted that his sense of humor was not more suitable for deposition, he was an important aspect of his leadership.

“I do not try to make anyone feel sorry for me, my life is not from anyone [should] I feel sorry for, “Gates”, but I think there are some lessons on how I felt to me as if he could have killed the company completely … and so on through this density, you must have a sense of humor.

“There was that time when I was witnessing and during the break, the writer came to me and says,” Mr. Gates, I know people who have a grant, and what do you do in the capital? “And all my complicated testimony on that day, the press covered that man next to me and made me look at least a young person at least from my picture at that time.”

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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