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Embracing new ideas and innovations is essential for long-term success, rather than solely relying on outdated methods.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.
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
the shell must break before the bird can fly.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
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