{"id":1016169,"date":"2026-06-22T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016169"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:19:38","slug":"microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-has-broken-up-the-senior-leadership-structure-that-has-run-microsoft-for-decades-creating-a-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/22\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-has-broken-up-the-senior-leadership-structure-that-has-run-microsoft-for-decades-creating-a-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has &#8216;broken up&#8217; the senior leadership structure that has run Microsoft for decades, creating a new&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has quietly dismantled the senior leadership structure that has run Microsoft for decades, creating a new inner circle built to compete in the AI era\u2014and it marks the most dramatic internal shake-up the company has seen in years. According to Business Insider, which spoke to people close to the CEO and reviewed internal documents, Nadella has retired what insiders call the SLT\u2014the senior leadership team of powerful executives who ran sprawling businesses and reported directly to him. In its place are smaller, flatter teams that sit much closer to the actual work. &#8220;We quietly retired what&#8217;s known as the SLT,&#8221; one person told Business Insider. The goal is speed. As one person close to Nadella put it, the pace of the AI shift is faster than anything they&#8217;ve seen, and Microsoft &#8220;can&#8217;t afford&#8221; to be slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has quietly dismantled the senior leadership structure that has run Microsoft for decades, creating a new inner circle built to compete in the AI era\u2014and it marks the most dramatic internal shake-up the company has seen in years. According to Business Insider, which spoke to people close to the CEO and reviewed internal documents, Nadella has retired what insiders call the SLT\u2014the senior leadership team of powerful executives who ran sprawling businesses and reported directly to him. In its place are smaller, flatter teams that sit much closer to the actual work. &#8220;We quietly retired what&#8217;s [&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-1016169","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\/1016169","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=1016169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016170,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016169\/revisions\/1016170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}