Taking pride in what you do is important, says Satya Nadella

On GitHub, India is the second biggest contributor to the developer ecosystems. In terms of artificial intelligence (AI) projects, India is number one and already has the human capital to build on the AI opportunity, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussing the opportunities and culture of innovation in India.

“Assuming you have all the tailwinds, managing culture and innovating becomes important,” Nadella said speaking to Sanjiv Bajaj, MD, Bajaj Finserv at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit.

Bajaj said, “I realised early on -- coming from a business which is 100 years old-- the role of culture in building outperformance in the long term. We have four mindsets we want to imbibe into the larger set of our employees.”

According to Bajaj, these are customer obsessions and the behaviour associated with it he said is to innovate to simplify customer interactions. The second one is the founder’s mindset which is to “dream to deliver” wherein the individuals will see the company as an opportunity to build their own legacy. The third mindset is talent building, to develop and delegate. Bajaj said innovations and ideas are just not restricted to senior management.