Microsoft CEO Nadella’s First Book ‘Hit Refresh’ Scheduled For Release In 2017
by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, July 1, 2016
Harper Business has acquired the world English rights to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s first book, Hit Refresh, which is scheduled to hit shelves in fall 2017.
Hollis Heimbouch, the VP and publisher or Harper Business, negotiated the deal with James Levine of Levine Greenberg Rostan literary agency. Nadella plans to donate the proceeds from the book to Microsoft Philanthropies to benefit nonprofits “working on public cloud for public good projects.” The book chronicles Nadella’s personal experience with Microsoft and changes within the company.
“The book is about change,” Nadella wrote in a prepared statement.
Nadella made changes at Microsoft since taking the reins from former CEO Steve Ballmer in February 2014. Ballmer, who joined Microsoft in 1980, had been the CEO since 2000. Some of the changes made include heightening the awareness of Bing and the technology powering the search engine.
He makes it clear in his description of the book that the focus at Microsoft remains on transformation — in particular, to transform the company into one with a focus on the future. His seems will focus on the importance of doing that within Microsoft and elsewhere.
He’s writing the book for “Microsoft team members, customers, and partners in hopes that these stories of transformation will be useful to them as they navigate their own path,” according to the publisher.
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