If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.
Interpretation
Embracing new ideas and innovations is essential for long-term success, rather than solely relying on outdated methods.
Satya Nadella emphasizes the importance of actively engaging with new concepts and innovations in order to thrive in the long run. Simply focusing on existing methods, even if they are efficient, is insufficient for enduring success. The quote suggests that without a genuine connection to advancement, one risks stagnation and ultimately, failure.
In practice
In a business presentation discussing the need for innovation.
You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.
What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.
If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.
I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.
At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.
Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.
Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
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