Inside Microsoft's cultural reinvention

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When the biggest company in the world slipped from its throne how did a new CEO try to rescue it using culture. What did Satya Nadella do? How did it succeed, how did it fail? What can any of us do to change our company culture?

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This episode draws on the outstanding paper by Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan and Anna Johnston from London Business School.

Here's the famous cartoon about Microsoft (vs other tech firms of the time)

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Eat Sleep Work Repeat, I'm Bruce Dasley.
0:07.0	First episode back of a whole load of new episodes,
0:10.0	and I can commit to that because I've recorded all of them.
0:12.0	Over the next few months, we're going to be taking a deep dive into what any of us can do to fix work
0:18.0	and I'm going to be taking a look at what workplace culture really is,
0:21.6	the actions we can take to make it better. These occasional
0:26.1	other episodes along the way, I've got one I recorded at VidCon, which is the sort of digital
0:31.6	creators festival, that doesn't really fit into this but it's a really lovely
0:35.2	chat so I'll just drop that along the way and I think that will come next week.
0:38.7	Look for the labels marks to fix your work. You can also find all of them on the website eat sleep work repeat
0:45.1	dot com forward slash fix your work and and they're all gathered there. If you
0:50.3	like this share it with your team maybe use it for team discussions.
0:53.6	I'm keen to hear from people who have sort of discussions on the themes that these things bring up.
0:59.7	I was in New York last week promoting the launch of the book named after this series
1:05.2	It's the same book one of my colleagues bought it it's the same book as the UK
1:11.5	book with some very slight changes so I wouldn't double up
1:15.6	unless you're a completest and then if you are a completest where you're going to love
1:20.9	the range of Polish, French,
1:23.9	French Canadian, or manner of books that are coming your way.
1:28.0	Just to give you a perspective of what's going to come up
1:30.6	over the next few episodes.
1:33.4	We're going to be taking a look inside the culture
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