Microsoft’s Satya Nadella didn’t aim his career at the top job he now holds. In fact, when his boss sent him to head Bing, he also told him, “If you go to Bing and don’t do a good job…it might just be your last job.” Nadella told the story on a 2017 episode of HBR’s IdeaCast.
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