Succeeded Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's CEO in 2014 and John W. Thompson as chairman in 2021; earlier ran the cloud and enterprise group that built Microsoft's computing platforms.
1 book of their own · 6 articles · 31 books they recommend
Microsoft's chief executive on moving the company toward cloud and AI.
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Satya Nadella
Hit Refresh | Microsoft's chief executive on moving the company toward cloud and AI. | 2017 | T2 | Bill Gates, Satya Nadella |
Microsoft's chief executive on moving the company toward cloud and AI.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates
Leonardo's life read through his notebooks, where art and science were one pursuit.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Austen Allred, Daniel Petre and 6 others
How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 24 others
The long-run dynamics of wealth and inequality, and why capital concentrates.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai
Globalisation's two phases: cheap shipping of goods, then cheap movement of ideas.
How the Industrial Revolution's self-regulating market upended society.
Why the inventions of 1870 to 1970 raised living standards as nothing since has.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Christopher Bloomstran and 1 other
People who think ability grows with effort learn more than those who think it fixed.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 12 others
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Keith Rabois
Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charles de Vaulx and 31 others
What eleven companies did to turn fifteen ordinary years into fifteen great ones.
Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 15 others
Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 23 others
Why China may match the US in AI now that applying it matters more than research.
Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Alfred Lin and 1 other
The textbook on deep learning: how machines learn layered concepts from data.
Also recommended by: Vinod Khosla, Elon Musk
Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 33 others
Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.
Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Eric Weinstein and 35 others
The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their quest for Olympic gold.
Also recommended by: Jim Collins
A Data General team races to design a 32-bit minicomputer in about a year.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison, Brad Feld and 2 others
A contemporary's account of the long war between Athens and Sparta.
Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Matt Mullenweg, Ray Dalio
Four steps to speak without blame: observations, feelings, needs and requests.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Dustin Moskovitz and 2 others
Eight Milwaukee families and two landlords through repeated evictions, 2008-09.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Emmett Shear and 2 others
Why liberty is hard to win and keep, and how it can survive new threats.
Iansiti and Lakhani examined AI-native firms — Ant Financial, Ocado, Amazon — and documented how AI changes firm architecture, not just processes. The shift from traditional operating models to AI-driven ones turns out to restructure competitive dynamics in ways that standard strategy frameworks miss.
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| Why we need a public cloud for the public good | The Official Microsoft Blog | 2016-01-19 |
| Office 2016: Reinventing productivity and business processes | The Official Microsoft Blog | 2015-09-22 |
| Empowering people to do great work | The Official Microsoft Blog | 2015-04-17 |
| A data culture for everyone | The Official Microsoft Blog | 2014-04-15 |
| A cloud for everyone, on every device | The Official Microsoft Blog | 2014-03-27 |
| Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on His AI Efforts and OpenAI Partnership Paywall | Bloomberg Businessweek | 2025 |
| How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around Paywall | The Economist | 2020 |
| What Satya Nadella did at Microsoft Paywall | The Economist | 2017 |
| Satya Nadella, Chief of Microsoft, on His New Role Paywall | The New York Times | 2014 |