Micro management delivers the goods
Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap. Austin Carr and Dina Bass report on how he did it
The congratulatory texts and tweets started during the last week of November 2018. Microsoft had overtaken Apple to become the world’s most valuable company, a stunning climax in a year that also saw it pass out Amazon and Google’s Alphabet Inc.
Long-time employees who’d grown accustomed to thinking of Microsoft as far removed from its glory years were flooded with messages from friends and family. Yet not a word of this achievement...
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