Quote of the Day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: “Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects…”

When Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s CEO on February 4, 2014, the company was in a quiet kind of trouble. Not the dramatic, headlines-on-fire kind—but the slow, creeping kind that’s almost worse. The PC market was shrinking. Mobile had already happened, and Microsoft had largely missed it. Apple and Google had moved in. The stock had been flat for over a decade. Internally, the culture had grown competitive in the wrong ways—people protecting turf rather than building things.

Nadella’s first email to all employees could have been a victory lap dressed up as humility. A lot of CEO introductions are. Instead, he wrote something direct enough to still be worth reading eleven years later.