Sorry Satya, Karma Won't Cut It

On a visit to Seattle last week, a couple of locals asked my opinion of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, because they couldn't quite figure him out. This was telling in itself: Nadella has been on the job since February, and Seattle is pretty much a company town. Everyone understood his famously brash predecessor, Steve Ballmer, even if they didn't like him; no one could yet get a handle on the gnomic new guy

I responded that in seeing him speak a couple of times, I had found Nadella remarkably adept at being inoffensive. He's an engaging speaker who talks a lot, and quotes his favorite poetry, without actually saying very much. On both occasions he brought up a great T.S. Eliot line — "we shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring shall be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time" — and said it was the best way he could think to describe Microsoft's current journey Read more...

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