The ‘culture’ that CEO Satya Nadella wants every Microsoft employee to maintain

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently urged employees to maintain their “growth mindset” culture as the company undergoes massive AI transformation and workforce restructuring. Microsoft CEO said the same in a company-wide internal memo sent a few weeks after the company announced layoffs that will affect 15,000-plus employees. “Growth mindset has served us well over the last decade—the everyday practice of being a learn-it-all, not a know-it-all,” Nadella wrote to Microsoft’s 200,000+ global workforce. “It has reshaped our culture and helped us lead with greater humility and empathy. We need to keep that.”

Nadella emphasized that this cultural foundation becomes even more critical as Microsoft pivots from a “software factory to an intelligence engine” while investing $80 billion in AI infrastructure.