Microsoft peaked at $60/share in 2000, just as Mr. Ballmer took the reins.  By 2002 it had fallen into the $20s, and has only rarely made it back to its current low $30s value.   On August 23, 2013, Microsoft announced that Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months. Microsoft was valued at 265 billion dollars then.   On February 4, 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Ballmer as CEO. Nadella would turn Microsoft into a 2.5 trillion dollar company within seven years of his tenure. 10 times bigger than when he took the job.  So how did he do it.  Steve jobs used focus and simplicity to change apple around. Nadella would use empathy to reinvent Microsoft.   unlike any other leader, he applied the ethos of empathy to Microsoft and turned it into the 2nd most valued company.  he showed how you can generate wealth by applying empathy to your works place, and keep wall street happy.   This is a podcast about why Empathy matters to Nadella, and how he used it to lead Microsoft.

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