A former Microsoft exec shares what Satya Nadella taught him about leadership: ‘Quit whining’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is transforming the company’s culture during his tenure, leaving a lasting impression on some current and former employees.

That includes Jeffrey Snover, a retired Microsoft chief technology officer and Google engineer, who recalled an “actionable lesson in leadership” he learned from Nadella in a recent blog post.

In short, he said, Nadella stressed that executives need to figure out how to succeed with the resources they have, rather than complain.

“If you are an exec and don’t have the resources to support your strategy, you have the wrong strategy,” Snover wrote. “Quit whining and wasting time trying to get the resources to support that strategy — do your job — get a strategy that can work with the resources you have.”

In a subsequent statement shared with Business Insider, Snover said he thinks Nadella is “the best CEO in America by a very wide margin.”

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