Good morning. Microsoft Ignite, the tech giant’s annual developer and IT conference, will kick off this morning in San Francisco. For the first time since he brought together Microsoft’s disparate tech events under one banner as a rookie CEO a decade ago, Satya Nadella will not deliver the opening keynote. Instead, that role will go to Judson Althoff, who leads Microsoft’s commercial business. That’s a shame as we need to be hearing more from CEOs like Nadella right now, especially given his stature in a time of mounting public distrust in both tech leaders and AI.
Nadella announced last month that he’s taking a more internal focus, handing off some of his responsibilities to Althoff to focus on the company’s “highest-ambition technical work.” I bet a lot of his peers would love to do that: With the exception of leaders like Marc Benioff and John Chambers, many tech leaders I’ve met don’t relish the public-facing part of their jobs. Nadella did recently post a short essay on LinkedIn, laying out his vision for AI platforms to create a “positive-sum” future in which companies can “build their own AI native capabilities and enterprise value” versus what he calls “zero-sum thinking and the winner-take-all hype.”
That’s an important message from the leader of a company that has a complicated history when it comes to creating tech ecosystems that sometimes lock in users and lock out competition. It’s a message that would get a lot more attention if he said it on stage this morning when the spotlight will be on Microsoft.
Every CEO has three basic roles: to create the vision and strategy of their company, to build the leadership team to execute on that vision and strategy, and to create the conditions to successfully replace themselves. What transcends all that is a CEO’s responsibility to be communicator-in-chief, the face of the company, the one who breaks big news and answers questions from investors, customers, regulators and journalists, among others.
With all the talk of AI bubbles, mass layoffs, business transformation and more, it’s even more important to hear from CEOs. It matters when Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar talks about hiring liberal arts graduates or Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes about developing superintelligence. That doesn’t mean we have to believe everything they say: my colleague Shawn Tully has a piece out today about the potential disconnect between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s rhetoric and reality.
Althoff will no doubt do a credible job at the keynote and I look forward to hearing what he has to say. But in a company that’s shaping the AI revolution, we should also be hearing from the person at the top. Contact CEO Daily via Diane Brady at [email protected]
This story was originally featured on Fortune.com
Hence then, the article about satya nadella relinquishes his role as microsoft s communicator in chief right when he s needed most was published today ( ) and is available on Fortune ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Satya Nadella relinquishes his role as Microsoft’s communicator-in-chief—right when he’s needed most )
Also on site :
- My Wife Doesn’t Know I Watched Her Cheat On Me. My Reaction Might Shock Us Both.
- The Good Ship Murder Christmas special cast: Meet the characters
- Eight fire crews tackling blaze at West Midlands Wetherspoon pub