{"id":1008987,"date":"2026-05-21T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008987"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:16:11","slug":"quote-of-the-day-by-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-our-industry-does-not-respect-tradition-it-only-respects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/21\/quote-of-the-day-by-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-our-industry-does-not-respect-tradition-it-only-respects\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: &#8220;Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Satya Nadella became Microsoft&#8217;s CEO on February 4, 2014, the company was in a quiet kind of trouble. Not the dramatic, headlines-on-fire kind\u2014but the slow, creeping kind that&#8217;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\u2014people protecting turf rather than building things.<\/p>\n<p>Nadella&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Satya Nadella became Microsoft&#8217;s CEO on February 4, 2014, the company was in a quiet kind of trouble. Not the dramatic, headlines-on-fire kind\u2014but the slow, creeping kind that&#8217;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\u2014people protecting turf rather than building things. Nadella&#8217;s first email to all employees could have been a victory lap dressed up as humility. A lot of CEO introductions are. Instead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008988,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008987\/revisions\/1008988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}