Archive for Tag: Satya Nadella in Kenya

Making salespeople into CEOs might not help firms

Stellar salespeople struggle as CEOs (and managers). Leadership calls for a “generalist”. A salesperson is a specialist, which is a narrow approach to leadership. Acres of editorial space globally, covered the transition at the helm of Microsoft. Finally, Satya Nadella took over as captain from Steve Ballmer. According to Reuters, “Steve Ballmer was regarded more

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