Lab 9 In the browser, type the URL httpwww.bluelock.comblog.docx

Lab 9
In the browser, type the URL
http://www.bluelock.com/blog/rpo-rto-pto-and-raas-disaster-
recovery-explained/ and press Enter to open the Web site.
7. Read the article titled “RPO, RTO, PTO and RaaS: Disaster
recovery explained.”
8. In the browser type the URL
http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/How-to-write-a-
disaster-recovery-plan-and-define-disaster-recovery-strategies/
and press Enter to open the Web site.
9. Read the article regarding disaster recovery strategies.
10. Make a backup of any Lab Assessment Worksheets you may
have completed from this lab manual. If this is the only lab
you’ve worked on, then make a mock Lab Assessment
Worksheet using the worksheet from this lab and back that one
up instead.
11. Attach the file(s) to an e-mail to your personal e-mail
address. You may need to send multiple e-mails depending on
your e-mail’s size limitations.
Note: At this point, ask yourself questions from the perspective
of recovering from a disaster: Would I be able to access this e-
mail from an offsite computer? Where is the e-mail stored? If I
were incapacitated, is someone else able to proceed without me?
This is the mindset of someone crafting business continuity
plans.
12. Verify receipt of the e-mail message(s), and then open and
verify file integrity for each attachment.
13. In your Lab Report file, write the backup procedures and
recovery procedures you used.
Note: Arguably, the most important section of any business
continuity plan is the Procedures section. A business can plan
disaster recovery scenarios extensively, carefully weighing all
possible risk likelihood and impacts. However, without detailed
procedures with which to execute the recovery, a business will

not resume operations efficiently, if at all. And this is
especially true in times of near-panic and extreme “executive
oversight” immediately following a disaster. The key source for
documenting accurate and helpful recovery procedures is
testing.
14. In your Lab Report file, describe your personal procedures
in terms of your RTO as
explained in Web sites visited earlier in this lab.
15. Test your backup and recovery procedures per your RTO.
16. In your Lab Report file, describe ways you can lower the
RTO.
Lab 10
Review the Mock IT infrastructure for a health care IT
infrastructure servicing patients with life-threatening conditions
(see Figure 1).
Figure 1 Mock IT infrastructure
4. Identify and then document the security controls and security
countermeasures you can implement throughout Figure 1 to help
mitigate risk from unauthorized access and access to intellectual
property or customer privacy data.
5. Review the steps for creating a CIRT plan as outlined in the
following table:
Step - Description of Step
Preparation - What tools, applications, laptops, and
communication devices are needed to address computer/security
incident response for this specific breach?
Identification - When an incident is reported, it must be
identified, classified, and documented. During this step, the
following information is needed: validating the incident;
identifying its nature, if an incident has occurred; identifying
and protecting the evidence; and logging and reporting the event
or incident.
Containment - The immediate objective is to limit the scope and
magnitude of the computer/security-related incident as quickly
as possible, rather than allow the incident to continue to gain

evidence for identifying and/or prosecuting the perpetrator.
Eradication - The next priority is to remove the
computer/security-related incident or breach’s effects.
Recovery - Recovery is specific to bringing back into
production those IT systems, applications, and assets that were
affected by the security-related incident.
Post-Mortem Review - Following up on an incident after the
recovery tasks and services are completed is a critical last step
in the overall methodology. A post-mortem report should
include a complete explanation of the incident and the
resolution and applicable configuration management, security
countermeasures, and implementation recommendations to
prevent the security incident or breach from occurring again.
Note: The post-mortem review is arguably the most important
step as CIRT team members re-evaluate their actions with the
valuable luxury of hindsight. When the CIRT members are able
to look back to compare what they saw and how it related to
what happened next, they can continually improve what they
offer the organization.
6. Create a CIRT response plan approach according to the six-
step methodology unique to the risks associated with the item
you choose from the following:
Internet ingress/egress at ASA_Student
Headquarters’ departmental VLANs on LAN Switch 1 and 2
with cleartext
privacy data
Remote branch office locations connected through the WAN
Data center/server farm at ASA_Instructor
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Satya Nadella at Microsoft:
Instilling a growth mindset
In early 2018, Satya Nadella celebrated his fourth anniversary
as the CEO of Microsoft. Under his
stewardship, Microsoft has gone from a company perceived as a
Windows-centric lumbering giant to
a $700 billion market cap tech player whose strategic bets on
artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud
computing were paying off (see Exhibit 1). After a decade of
flat growth under Nadella’s predecessor,
the company’s share price soared to an all-time high in June
2018.
Nadella remembered February 4, 2014 vividly in his book Hit
Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover
Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone. It
was the day he took charge of a company
widely portrayed by its own employees as plagued by internal
knife fights, bickering and inertia. In his
mind, the company’s ability to make great technology was never
lost. However, a culture of internal

competition and “not invented here” mentality had focused
employees on a narrow vision of
performance over customers and increasingly expansive market
opportunities.
An engineer, Nadella thus set out to change the human system at
Microsoft. Four years later, he
prided himself on the company again becoming a magnet for top
engineering talent, a world-class
competitor among the heavyweights of the tech industry, and
valued partner to companies undergoing
their own digital transformation (see Exhibit 2).
“People often ask how it’s going,” said Nadella. “My response
is very eastern: We’re making great
progress, but we should never be done.” 1
The “lost decade”
Just 17 days after founder and technical whizz Bill Gates
handed over the reins to Steve Ballmer in
2000, the stock market crashed. In the decade that followed, a
culture that crippled innovation
flourished at Microsoft.
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Microsoft’s infamous “stack ranking” performance management
system pitted employees against each
other every six months. Like a stack of LEGO bricks, employees
were essentially slotted into top, good,
average, below average and poor positions. The forced
distribution meant that one in 10 people would
always receive a poor rating, regardless how much they
contributed. As one product manager
remembered: “If you don’t play the politics, it’s management by
character assassination.”
Management practices like the stacking system killed
collaboration: developers feared that giving
away their best ideas could damage their position. Employees
prioritised what would help them get
the highest ratings over the quality of their work. “I was told in
almost every review that the political
game was always important for my career development,”
reflected one former Microsoft engineer.
Ultimately, “staffers were rewarded not just for doing well but
for making sure their colleagues failed.”
(See Exhibit 3.)
A wave of external competition crashed down on the firm,
causing talent to jump ship. By 2004, thanks
to the rapid growth of upstart firms such as Google, some of
Microsoft’s most talented employees were
leaving faster than they could be replaced. “Instead of a culture

that said, ‘Let’s experiment and see
which ideas work,’ the culture is one of, ‘Let’s kiss enough ass
so maybe they’ll approve of our product’,”
said one Microsoft executive who eventually quit in 2009 to
work for Google 2. A former engineer said
it was like “designing software by committee.”3
Microsoft’s product development process lagged: Bing failed to
extinguish Google search, and Zune
couldn’t compete with Apple’s iPod. In 1998, for example, a
group of executives passionate about
bringing an e-book to market were waved away by Gates and
told to report into an Office-run division.
“Potential market-busting businesses, such as e-book and smart
phone technology, were killed or
delayed amid bickering and power plays.”4
Ballmer aggressively opposed open-source innovation, calling
Linux a “cancer that attaches itself in
an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” The
industry labelled him “shortsighted”.
Morale plummeted. By 2011, Ballmer’s Glassdoor rating among
his own employees was just
29%. Despite climbing to 46% the following year, it still lagged
behind others at that time: Google CEO
Larry Page’s approval rating was 94% and Mark Zuckerberg’s
was 99%.
After the tech bubble burst and with the stock price flat,
“People realised they weren’t going to get
wealthy,” one former senior executive said. “They turned into
people trying to move up the ladder,
rather than people trying to make a big contribution to the
firm.” Meanwhile, companies like Google
were paying employees up to 23% above the industry average.5

By 2014, the Microsoft that Nadella inherited was fading toward
irrelevance, heralded the press. The
tech industry had shifted from desktop computers to
smartphones – from Microsoft’s Windows to
Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android. Apple and Google had
soared to record market valuations;
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Microsoft’s stock price had stalled, despite the fact that revenue
had tripled and profits had doubled
during Ballmer’s reign as CEO from 2000 to 2014.6
As industry analyst Jan Dawson summarised: “It was an
enormously profitable company. They were
in no danger of going out of business soon – it was just a
question of whether they’d go into permanent
decline.”7
Satya Nadella
The consummate insider, Nadella grew up professionally in the
Microsoft that Gates and Ballmer
created. The India-born cricket enthusiast started working at
Microsoft in 1992 when products were
saved on disks and the world was powered by Windows 3.0. A

computer scientist by training, Nadella
moved through a range of leadership roles, including heading up
R&D for Online Services, and
ultimately becoming executive vice president of the Cloud and
Enterprise group. He recalled taking
risks along the way:
I distinctly remember Steve saying, ‘Hey, look, you know if you
go to Bing and you
don’t do a good job or succeed, it might just be your last job.’
But at the same time,
his own intellectual honesty and how he talked about that job
made it, you know, very
enticing. It was tough to refuse to go there to learn. And it’s
clear that if I had not gone
and learned… and if I had not run the cloud infrastructure
business, I’m sure the
board would have not seen me as a candidate even for CEO.8
Reflecting on important influences in his life, Nadella cites his
formative experiences: “It’s the language,
routines and mindset of my parents back in India and my
immediate family in Seattle that helped form
me and still guide me today.”9
In particular, he traces the roots of his ideas about leadership to
the birth of his first child, Zain, who
was premature, weighed just three pounds, and had cerebral
palsy. “Empathy, we learned, was
invisible and was a universal value,” said Nadella. “And we
learned that empathy is essential to deal
with problems everywhere, whether at Microsoft or at home;
here in the United States or globally. That
is also a mindset, a culture.” 10

Taking charge
As Microsoft’s new CEO on February 4, 2014, Nadella scripted
a letter to all employees (see
Exhibit 4):
Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very
first day at Microsoft,
22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to
work. I came here
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because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the
world. I saw then how
clearly we empower people to do magical things with our
creations and ultimately
make the world a better place. I knew there was no better
company to join if I wanted
to make a difference. This is the very same inspiration that
continues to drive me
today.
He spoke of focusing the company on its core values, but
through a new lens. “We need to prioritise
innovation that is centred on our core value of empowering
users and organisations to ‘do more’.”

As Nadella reflected on what needed to shift, he set his sights
on what he himself called “a vague and
amorphous term”:
Microsoft’s culture had been rigid. Each employee had to prove
to everyone that he
or she was the smartest person in the room. Accountability –
delivering on time and
hitting numbers – trumped everything. Meetings were formal. If
a senior leader
wanted to tap the energy and creativity of someone lower down
in the organisation,
she or he needed to invite that person’s boss, and so on.
Hierarchy and pecking order
had taken control, and spontaneity and creativity had
suffered.11
“We all knew something was going to be different when he
assigned the Leadership Team to read
[Marshall Rosenberg’s] Nonviolent Communication: A
Language of Life: Life Changing Tools for
Healthy Relationships,” recalled Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox.12
Microsoft president and chief legal
officer Brad Smith, a 24-year company veteran, agreed this was
a clear indication that Nadella was
going to transform “not just the business strategy, but the
culture as well.”13
Nadella devoted much of his first year to listening and learning
from others:
I heard from hundreds of employees at every level and in every
part of the company.
We held focus groups to allow people to share their opinions
anonymously as well.
Listening was the most important thing I accomplished each

day, because it would
build the foundation of my leadership for years to come. To my
first question, why
does Microsoft exist, the message was loud and clear. We exist
to build products that
empower others. That is the meaning we’re all looking to infuse
into our work. I heard
other things as well. Employees wanted a CEO who would make
crucial changes,
but one who also respected the original ideals of Microsoft,
which had always been
to change the world. They wanted a clear, tangible and inspiring
vision. They wanted
to hear more frequently about progress in transparent and
simple ways. Engineers
wanted to lead again, not follow. They wanted to up the
coolness. We had technology
the press would fawn over in Silicon Valley, such as leading-
edge artificial intelligence,
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but we weren’t showing it off. What they really demanded was a
road map to remove
paralysis.14
Nadella’s to-do list for the first year included preparing

Microsoft for a mobile- and cloud-first world,
building “new and surprising partnerships” and working to
ensure they could truly empower every
person on the planet as their new mission stated.
In the spring of 2014, despite a contentious historical rivalry
with Apple and lack of traction with their
own Windows phones, Microsoft made Office available on all
iOS devices, including the iPhone and
iPad. The next year, the global launch of Windows 10 originated
in a tiny village in Kenya.
“Articulating our core raison d’etre and business was a good
first step. But I also needed to get the
right people on the bus to join me in leading these changes,”
Nadella said. He wanted a senior
leadership team (SLT) that would “lean into each other’s
problems, promote dialogue, and be effective”.
“I don’t mean yes-men and yes-women,” he explained. “Debate
and argument are essential. Improving
upon each other’s ideas is crucial. I wanted people to speak up.
‘Oh, here’s a customer segmentation
study I’ve done’. ‘Here’s a pricing approach that contradicts
this idea’. It’s great to have a good, old-
fashioned college debate. But there also has to be high quality
agreement.”15
To her surprise, Nadella selected Jill Tracie Nichols, Ballmer’s
communications lead 2009–2014, as
his chief of staff in 2014. When she questioned why, Nadella
told her: “I’ve seen you work with others
and you treat them well. You show respect. I want my office to
be about the culture we are trying to
create and not about power.”16

Peggy Johnson, a seasoned Qualcomm executive, became head
of business development. Her job
would be to forge ties with former Silicon Valley rivals, such as
Dropbox. “Satya was already on a
regular cadence of visiting the Valley, which was new for the
CEO of Microsoft,” said Johnson. “And
he said to me, ‘I want you to be outside of Redmond as much as
you are inside of Redmond’.”
Kathleen Hogan, who had experience at McKinsey and Oracle,
would transition from leading
Microsoft’s global consulting and support business to partnering
with Nadella on leading the cultural
transformation as chief people officer. Kurt DelBene, who “was
handpicked by President Obama to fix
Healthcare.org” and once upon a time led the Office division,
returned as chief strategy officer. Chris
Capossela headed up marketing and Scott Guthrie, an engineer
who had worked with Nadella in
building the cloud business, would lead Cloud and Enterprise,
Microsoft’s “fastest growing business”.
“Over time, these changes meant that some executives left,”
recalled Nadella. “They were all talented
people, but the senior leadership team needed to become a
cohesive team that shared a common
world view… We needed everyone to view SLT as his or her
first team, not just another meeting they
attended. We needed to be aligned on mission, strategy and
culture.” 17

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The 2015 annual executive retreat offered another opportunity
to convey that things were changing.
“One aspect of the off-site really bugged me,” admitted Nadella.
“Here we were with all this talent, all
this bandwidth, and all this IQ in one place just talking at each
other in the deep woods. And frankly,
it seems like most of the talking was about poking holes in each
other’s ideas. Enough.”
Nadella broke tradition by inviting the founders of companies
Microsoft had recently acquired in the
year prior, such as Mojang, the maker of Minecraft. As Nadella
said:
These new Microsoft leaders were mission-orientated,
innovative, born in the mobile-
first and cloud-first world. I knew we could learn from their
fresh, outside perspective.
The only problem was that most of these leaders did not
officially “qualify” to go to
executive retreats given the person’s level in the organisation.
To make matters
worse, neither did the manager, or even their manager’s
manager… Inviting them
was not one of my more popular decisions. But they showed up
bright-eyed,
completely ignorant of the history they were breaking. They
asked questions. They
shared their own journeys. They pushed us to better.18

Another change “not universally loved” was scheduling
customer visits during the retreat. Despite
some “eye-rolling and groaning,” executives from different
business lines were shuttled off together to
visit customers. The invigorated executives ended up talking for
days about what they had learned
and what that meant for the future of Microsoft. “The
transformation was under way,” concluded
Nadella.
From know-it-alls to learn-it-alls
At Microsoft’s July 2015 global sales conference in Orlando,
Nadella revealed a fresh company
mission: “To empower every person and every organisation on
the planet to achieve more.” The
original mission enshrined by Gates was “a computer on every
desk and in every home.”
After covering business plans, including building an intelligent
cloud platform, with the spotlight on his
face, Nadella talked about his children and what learning each
of their special needs had meant for
him and his wife, Anu. Nearing the end of the speech, he turned
to talking about the Microsoft culture:
We can have all the bold ambitions. We can have all the bold
goals. We can aspire
to our new mission. But it’s only going to happen if we live our
culture, if we teach our
culture. And to me, that model of culture is not a static thing. It
is about a dynamic
learning culture. In fact, the phrase we use to describe our
emerging culture is ‘growth
mindset’, because it’s about every individual, every one of us
having that attitude –

that mindset – of being able to overcome any constraint, stand
up to any challenge,
making it possible for us to grow and thereby for the company
to grow.19
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In early 2015, Anu had given him a best-selling book by
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck entitled
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. She had found it
helpful in thinking about creating
conditions for success for one of their daughters who has
learning differences, but suspected it might
also give Nadella some ideas for Microsoft. People who operate
with a fixed mindset, the theory says,
are more likely to stick to activities that utilise skills they’ve
already mastered, rather than risk
embarrassment by failing at something new. People focused on
growth make it their mission to learn
new things, understanding that they won’t succeed at all of them
at first.20
This rang true for Nadella, who seized on the ideas to forge a
plan for Microsoft. “Dweck divides the
world between learners and non-learners,” explained Nadella,
“demonstrating that a fixed mindset will
limit you and a growth mindset can move you forward.”21

Microsoft’s culture change, he concluded,
would centre on “the belief that everyone can grow and develop;
potential is nurtured, not
predetermined; and anyone can change their mindset”.22 They
would shift from being “know-it-alls” to
“learn-it-alls.”
Nadella told Hogan that the primary things he wanted her to
help him on was evolving the culture. At
an offsite with 180 executives divided into 17 teams, they
started a dialogue on what kind of culture
they wanted to have. The 17 leaders became Hogan’s “culture
cabinet,” charged with defining growth
mindset for Microsoft.23 After much debate, and consultation
with experts like Dweck, the group
articulated three pillars, all in the service of making a
difference in the world:
Customer obsession. We need to obsess about our customers. At
the core of our
business must be the curiosity and desire to meet a customer’s
unarticulated and
unmet needs with great technology. This was not abstract: We
all get to practice each
day. When we talk to customers, we need to listen. We need to
be insatiable in our
desire to learn from the outside and bring that learning into
Microsoft.
Diversity and inclusion. We are at our best when we actively
seek diversity and
inclusion. If we are going to serve the planet as our mission
states, we need to reflect
the planet. The diversity of our workforce must continue to
improve, and we need to
include a wide range of opinions and perspectives in our

thinking and decision-
making. In every meeting, don’t just listen – make it possible
for others to speak so
that everyone’s ideas come through. Inclusiveness will help us
become open to
learning about our own biases and changing our behaviours so
we can tap into the
collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our
ideas will be better, our
products will be better, and our customers will be better served.
One Microsoft. We are one company, one Microsoft – not a
confederation of
fiefdoms. Innovation and competition don’t respect our silos, so
we have to learn to
transcend those barriers. 24
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Throughout 2015 and 2016, Nadella spoke widely about the
importance of mindset. “The CEO sets
the tone for the culture,” explained Nichols. “Gates and Ballmer
were super-smart, driven and hard-
charging. Their model was ‘precision questioning:’ picking
apart ideas in meetings to test their validity
and the presenter’s conviction, and that approach flowed
through the organisation. Satya models being

curious, seeking to learn as people bring him new ideas and
information.25
Grounding the pillars
“We made big intentional changes that would grab people’s
attention,” said Hogan, “like changing the
performance review system ... and small changes like giving
people a list of 10 inclusive behaviours
and asking them to pick one and discuss it.”26 “We never
believed that there would be one thing that
would change the company. It would be a lot of things, big and
small, reinforcing the change,” echoed
Nichols.27
Customer obsession required employees to get up from their
chairs and into the field. Dorothee Ritz,
Microsoft’s general manager for Austria in July 2015,
encouraged her team to speak with customers
on their turf:
One account manager spent a week out on a street with police
officers, trying to
understand when and where remote data could help them.
Another account manager
spent two days in a hospital to observe first-hand and
understand what it would really
mean to become paperless.28
After a year of experimenting with “immersive experiences”,
Ritz selected a set of key customers
(whom she calls partners) across industries ranging from car
manufacturing to retailers to hospitals.
Fifteen executives from Microsoft went on-site to talk to their
customers about their challenges. 29
“Getting to know each other in the context of solving a

partner’s problems was more meaningful than
ropes exercises or off-site discussions,” explained Ritz.30
The commitment to making Microsoft a safe and inclusive place
was less about training than the
behaviour modelled by senior managers. For example, when
Xbox sponsored a party at the 2016
Game Developer’s Conference, featuring scantily-clad women
dancers31, Xbox head Spencer made
a swift apology. “What made it easier for me to hold myself
accountable was really believing in the
growth mindset piece of our culture.”32 And, to ensure the
numbers reflected the intentions, diversity
targets were set for senior management.33
The infamous stack-ranking performance system was abolished,
replaced by “continual feedback and
coaching”34 and a compensation process that put more
influence in the hands of managers. Instead
of basing rewards such as bonuses on an algorithm driven by
employee ratings, managers are given
a budget for compensation that they can hand out as they see fit.
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Microsoft’s annual Hackathon, OneWeek, is an example of the
new “one company” ethos. Employees

are invited to step away from their work and concentrate on a
hack: a problem that, when solved, could
benefit people, business, society or the environment. People
team up, plot a business plan, create a
prototype and then pitch it company-wide; winning hackathon
teams are funded to build their projects.
At first, people wondered if OneWeek was worth the effort. But
the potential to reach millions of people
around the world held a strong allure.
On September 26, 2017, Nadella’s book, Hit Refresh was
released, and every employee received a
copy with a letter inside (see Exhibit 5). “Writing it was more
for employees and to advance culture
than anything else,” said co-author Nichols.35
Nudges and small reminders engage all 125,000 employees with
the new culture. For example,
leaders close meetings with a reflection, “Was that a growth-
mindset or fixed-mindset meeting? Why?”
Nadella issues monthly videos reviewing his top few learnings,
prompting groups across Microsoft to
discuss their own learnings. Visitors to Redmond have been
welcomed by elevator doors decorated
with the Chinese symbol for “listen”. Employees in the canteen
are reminded to be lifelong learners
when they wipe their face – thanks to the napkin holders.
Role-modelling the change
Eight months into his tenure, Nadella gave the keynote speech
at the Grace Hopper Celebration of
Women in Computing, an annual event for women in the tech
industry. During the Q&A, Dr Maria
Klawe, a computer scientist and former Microsoft board
member, asked Nadella what advice he had

for women seeking a pay raise who are not comfortable asking.
He advised patience, and “knowing
and having faith that the system will actually give you the right
raises as you go along.”
Nadella’s comments went viral, provoking outrage. He was
mocked publicly as ignorant of well-
documented gender pay gaps, and his stated commitment to
diversity was questioned. Instead of
waiting for the furore to settle, Nadella said, “I was determined
to use the incident to demonstrate what
a growth mindset looks like under pressure.”36
By email, the CEO told his employees he had “answered that
question completely wrong”. Nadella
explored his own biases and asked his executive team to do the
same. It made an impression with his
top team, including Hogan, who said: “I became more
committed to Satya, not less. He didn’t blame
anybody. He owned it. He came out to the entire company and
he said, ‘We’re going to learn, and
we’re going to get a lot smarter’.”37
There were plenty of other opportunities to learn from public
mistakes.
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In March 2016, researchers at Microsoft’s Future Social
Experiences (FUSE) Labs unveiled Tay, an
AI-based chatbot. Tay soon became a powerful reminder that
“AI can (and often should) behave in
ways human creators might not expect”.38 Twitter trolls
discovered that if they “pummelled Tay’s
account with racism, sexism and other hateful rhetoric – a
scenario Microsoft had not accounted for –
she would spew some of it back.”39 In just 24 hours, the bot
tweeted 96,000 times in an “increasingly
vile fashion”. Microsoft’s public AI experiment “failed by its
own standards”.
It was a “humiliation,” the press scorched. Undeterred, Nadella
wrote to Tay’s creators, “Keep pushing,
and know that I am with you.” In December 2016, Microsoft
launched Zo, a bot similar to Tay, but
designed to be more “troll-resistant.”
Reflecting on what he described as the most difficult lesson he
had learned, at the 2016 Game
Developer’s conference Xbox chief Spencer echoed his boss.
“When we make mistakes – and we
bump, or collide, into each other – the easy way is to retreat,
maybe even to deny there’s a problem.
Instead, I think we have to be humble. I think we have to be
active learners – read, educate ourselves,
try to understand other people’s journeys, and read some more.
And then, better informed, I think we
commit to leading with deliberate purpose.”40
Four years on
Today, Microsoft is once again a magnet for top engineering
talent, rated as one of five best AI

companies for employees 41, and Nadella has a Glassdoor
employee approval rating of 95%.
“Our industry doesn’t respect tradition,” said Nadella, “it
respects innovation.” His first four years have
seen a number of bold tech decisions; for example, investments
in quantum computing and mixed
reality, and innovations such as HoloLens, a holographic
computer that enables people to interact with
holograms.
Today, over 95% of Fortune 500 companies choose Azure,
Microsoft’s cloud computing service. Azure
has announced 50 regions globally, with 40 generally available
today – more than any other major
cloud vendor. The company has embraced Linux, the open-
source Windows rival “rather than clinging
to Windows like a security blanket.” Nadella’s $26 billion deal
for LinkedIn, which combines LinkedIn’s
500 million professional users with the 85 million people who
use Office 365, “gives Microsoft a
formidable data hoard for its AI operations.”42
“After years of intensive focus,” Nadella said of the culture
change, “we began to see some
encouraging results.”

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Employees told us they felt the company was heading in the
right direction. They felt
we were making the right choices for long-term success and
they saw different
groups across the company working together more…
But we also saw some trends that were not as encouraging.
When asked whether
their vice president, or group leader, was prioritising talent
movement and
development, the results were worse than they’d been before our
culture-building
project began. Even the most optimistic workers will become
discouraged if they are
not being developed. I had set a clear mission and envisioned an
empowering culture.
Employees and senior leaders were on board, but we had a
missing link-middle
management. 43
Expecting 125,000 people to take a learning-oriented approach
to their work is a significant task. Not
everyone gets it right away. “It’s a lot like love, grace, or
forgiveness,” said Nichols. “Words don’t
describe it until you experience it.”
At a meeting of 150 Microsoft executives that Nadella convened
to discuss developing high potentials,
he shared a story. One of his managers had told him that five of
his team members didn’t have a
growth mindset. “The guy was just using growth mindset to find
a new way to complain about others,”
Nadella told the group. He declared the whining over. “To be a
leader in this company, your job is to

find the rose petals in a field of shit.”44
“Cultural transformation is hard and demanding work,” agreed
Spencer. “Four years into it, it’s still
sometimes incredibly slow and incredibly painful to get
everyone on board, much less to admit our
own biases.”45
The future
In September 2017, at Microsoft Ignite, an annual conference
for developers and IT professionals,
Nadella closed with an ambition:
The core soul of our company is to empower every person and
every organisation on
the planet to achieve more. That means we want to democratise
the access to
technology.
I was reminded of a poem I’ve read by Vijay Seshadri, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
from 2014, called Imaginary Number. The last line goes: ‘The
soul, like the square
root of minus 1, is an impossibility that has its uses.’ It
definitely does.
We all seek to unlock the unimaginable and solve the
impossible. That’s the quest
we are on.46

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Exhibits
Exhibit 1: Evolution of Microsoft’s share price
Source: Macrotrends

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Exhibit 2: Top players by market share and revenue growth in
cloud computing, Q2 2017
Source: Synergy Research Group
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Exhibit 3: Organisation-chart cartoon courtesy of Manu Cornet
Source: http://bonkersworld.net/
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Exhibit 4: Satya Nadella’s first letter to employees as Microsoft
CEO
From: Satya Nadella
To: All Employees
Date: Feb. 4, 2014
Subject: RE: Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s New CEO
Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very
first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago.
Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came
here because I believed Microsoft was
the best company in the world. I saw then how clearly we
empower people to do magical things with
our creations and ultimately make the world a better place. I
knew there was no better company to join
if I wanted to make a difference. This is the very same
inspiration that continues to drive me today.
It is an incredible honor for me to lead and serve this great
company of ours. Steve and Bill have taken
it from an idea to one of the greatest and most universally
admired companies in the world. I’ve been

fortunate to work closely with both Bill and Steve in my
different roles at Microsoft, and as I step in as
CEO, I’ve asked Bill to devote additional time to the company,
focused on technology and products.
I’m also looking forward to working with John Thompson as our
new Chairman of the Board.
While we have seen great success, we are hungry to do more.
Our industry does not respect tradition
— it only respects innovation. This is a critical time for the
industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake,
we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and
we evolve with and ahead of it. Our
job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-
first world.
As we start a new phase of our journey together, I wanted to
share some background on myself and
what inspires and motivates me.
Who am I?
I am 46. I’ve been married for 22 years and we have 3 kids. And
like anyone else, a lot of what I do
and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall
life experiences. Many who know me
say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I
buy more books than I can finish. I sign
up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally
believe that if you are not learning
new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family,
curiosity and hunger for knowledge all
define me.
Why am I here?

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I am here for the same reason I think most people join
Microsoft — to change the world through
technology that empowers people to do amazing things. I know
it can sound hyperbolic — and yet it’s
true. We have done it, we’re doing it today, and we are the team
that will do it again.
I believe over the next decade computing will become even
more ubiquitous and intelligence will
become ambient. The coevolution of software and new hardware
form factors will intermediate and
digitize — many of the things we do and experience in business,
life and our world. This will be made
possible by an ever-growing network of connected devices,
incredible computing capacity from the
cloud, insights from big data, and intelligence from machine
learning.
This is a software-powered world.
It will better connect us to our friends and families and help us
see, express, and share our world in
ways never before possible. It will enable businesses to engage

customers in more meaningful ways.
I am here because we have unparalleled capability to make an
impact.
Why are we here?
In our early history, our mission was about the PC on every
desk and home, a goal we have mostly
achieved in the developed world. Today we’re focused on a
broader range of devices. While the deal
is not yet complete, we will welcome to our family Nokia
devices and services and the new mobile
capabilities they bring us.
As we look forward, we must zero in on what Microsoft can
uniquely contribute to the world. The
opportunity ahead will require us to reimagine a lot of what we
have done in the past for a mobile and
cloud-first world, and do new things.
We are the only ones who can harness the power of software
and deliver it through devices and
services that truly empower every individual and every
organisation. We are the only company with
history and continued focus in building platforms and
ecosystems that create broad opportunity.
Qi Lu captured it well in a recent meeting when he said that
Microsoft uniquely empowers people to
"do more." This doesn’t mean that we need to do more things,
but that the work we do empowers the
world to do more of what they care about — get stuff done,
have fun, communicate and accomplish
great things. This is the core of who we are, and driving this

core value in all that we do — be it the
cloud or device experiences — is why we are here.
What do we do next?
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To paraphrase a quote from Oscar Wilde — we need to believe
in the impossible and remove the
improbable.
This starts with clarity of purpose and sense of mission that will
lead us to imagine the impossible and
deliver it. We need to prioritize innovation that is centered on
our core value of empowering users and
organisations to "do more." We have picked a set of high-value
activities as part of our One Microsoft
strategy. And with every service and device launch going
forward we need to bring more innovation
to bear around these scenarios.
Next, every one of us needs to do our best work, lead and help
drive cultural change. We sometimes
underestimate what we each can do to make things happen and
overestimate what others need to do
to move us forward. We must change this.

Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our
work. The best work happens when
you know that it’s not just work, but something that will
improve other people’s lives. This is the
opportunity that drives each of us at this company.
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have
all the elements required: talent,
resources, and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all
three in abundance. And as the new
CEO, I can’t ask for a better foundation.
Let’s build on this foundation together.
Satya
Source: Microsoft
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Exhibit 5: Satya Nadella’s letter to “the two families that have
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References and Notes
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9 Nadella, S., Shaw, G. and Nichols, J. (2017). Hit Refresh: The
Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine
a Better Future for Everyone. William Collins, p.92.
10 Ibid, p.93.
11 Fast Company. (2018). Satya Nadella: The C In CEO Stands
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13 Fast Company. (2018). Satya Nadella Rewrites Microsoft’s
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microsofts-code
14 Nadella, S., Shaw, G. and Nichols, J. (2017). Hit Refresh:
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine
a Better Future for Everyone. William Collins, p.75-76.
15 Ibid, p.81.
16 Interview with Jill Tracie Nichols, Satya Nadella’s Chief of
Staff 2014–2017 and co-author of Hit Refresh: The
Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better
Future for Everyone, London, May 1, 2018
17 Ibid, p.80.
18 Ibid, p.83.
19 Ibid, p.93-94.
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22 Microsoft.com. (2018). Empowering Our Employees -
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23 Interview with Kathleen Hogan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kf7mhkG6cM
26 Interview with Hogan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kf7mhkG6cM
27 Ibid.
28 Cable, D. (2018). Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of
Helping Your People Love What They Do. Harvard
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29 Ibid, p.169.
30 Ibid, p.170.
31 BBC News. (2018). Xbox apologises for go-go dancer party.
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33 The Verge. (2018). Microsoft says it will tie executive
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38 West, J. (2018). Microsoft’s disastrous Tay experiment
shows the hidden dangers of AI. [online] Quartz. Available
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shows-the-hidden-dangers-of-ai/

microsofts-code
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44 Ibid, p.119.
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46 News.microsoft.com. (2018). [online] Available at:
news.microsoft.com/uploads/2017/09/Satya-Nadella-transcript-
Ignite-2017.pdf
Structure BookmarksSatya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a
growth mindset The “lost decade” Satya Nadella Taking charge
From know-it-alls to learn-it-alls Grounding the pillars Role-
modelling the change Four years on The future Exhibits Exhibit
1: Evolution of Microsoft’s share price Exhibit 2: Top players
by market share and revenue growth in cloud computing, Q2
2017 Exhibit 3: Organisation-chart cartoon courtesy of Manu
Cornet Exhibit 4: Exhibit 5: Satya Nadella’s letter to “the two
families that have shaped my life” References and Notes
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JWI 510: Leadership in the 21st Century
Lecture Notes

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Week 7: Leading through Relationships
As Jack counsels, leading is not about power and control;
leading is about achieving results through
others. These others include, not only your employees, but also
your boss and colleagues. Your
colleagues, especially in large multinational organizations, can
be widespread and may be located in
different business units and different countries. Further, in
businesses of any size, you may have to exert
influence over employees of other companies that are part of
your supply chain, or you may have to deal
with virtual teams. As such, our focus this week is on achieving
results through leading upwards and
laterally, and on getting work done in situations where you
don’t have formal authority.
Lateral Leadership and Persuasion
Lateral leadership focuses on the particular capabilities all
leaders must hone to ensure their
effectiveness in today's organizations. Johnson (2003) states

that the key capabilities include:
• Networking
Determine whose support you will need to achieve your current
and potential initiatives, and
build those relationships.
• Persuasion and Negotiation
When bargaining, focus on mutual benefit. This will increase
your influence and build solid
professional relationships.
• Consultation
Talk to people whose buy-in you need for an initiative about the
best processes to achieve
results, and what will create support for the initiative and its
implementation.
• Coalition Building
Alliances are more powerful than attempting to influence by
oneself, so gather together the
people you need to support the initiative.
Honing these skills requires a leader to focus on the
organization of the system, rather than focusing on
one functional silo. Clearly, all lateral leadership capabilities
revolve around a conscious focus on
building relationships. Developing solid and enduring
relationships is the surest way of building the trust
required to effectively influence.

Lecture Notes
University.
The Art of Persuasion
The key capabilities of lateral leadership are closely tied to
effective persuasion. Persuasion is a
necessary approach to achieving results in today’s flat, multi-
generational, team-oriented organization.
What you may think of as persuasion – a one-time, hard sell,
well-reasoned, firm approach – is a recipe
for failure.
There are four factors necessary for effective persuasion
(Conger, 1998):
1. Credibility

To persuade someone, they need to trust you. Be aware that you
might think you are more
credible than you really are; this factor is about expertise. If
you do not have a history of being
knowledgeable and making sound decisions, you need to learn
more about your position, hire
someone who has the expertise needed, or support your position
with respected outside sources.
Reflect on your relational history and, if there are gaps in your
relationships, you may need to
meet personally with key individuals or gather groups of allies
who have relationships with those
you want to persuade.
2. Shared Benefits
It is important to understand your audience and how they will
perceive the issue presented to
them. This depth of understanding requires asking questions and
carefully listening to feedback
from those impacted by the issue. Persuasion may transform
during this process; some
adjustment is a positive step toward a successful outcome. Once
the audience is understood, the
issue must be presented so that the advantages for your
audience are clear.
3. Memorable Evidence
To effectively persuade, present the audience with a story that
will make a meaningful impact and
be memorable. One of the most effective approaches is to
vividly describe a comparable situation.
4. Show Emotion

Just as Jack advocates for passion as an essential quality of
great leaders and good employees, it
is also important for effective persuasion. It is essential to show
an emotional connection to the
issue presented – the audience must feel it. It is equally
important to understand the mood and the
emotional state of the audience, so you can adjust tone
accordingly.
Persuasion is difficult. It takes time, but it is a powerful force
that can move an organization forward. Next
week, we will explore the topic of getting results. Try and
weave what you have learned about persuasion into
what you will learn about leading an organization that executes
to win.
Lecture Notes
University.

The Five Laws of Managing Up
If you are working, you are either self-employed and the owner
of your business, or you have a boss. Just
as your lateral relationships are a central focus, so, too, is your
relationship with your boss. The most
effective leaders know how to make the most of this. They know
how to manage up.
In an age when you spend the majority of your waking hours at
work, bosses can have an enormous
impact on your daily life and self-esteem. They hold power over
your compensation and career. They can
make or break your ability to do your job well in terms of
resources and coaching. In sum, a good
relationship with your boss can make work, not just deeply
rewarding, but downright fun. A bad one can
cause misery. Either way, remember that upward relationships
require special tending. With that in mind,
we now turn to five laws for effectively influencing your boss,
developed by management expert Michael
Feiner (2004).
1. Make Your Own Bed
You are 100% responsible for the quality of your relationship
with your boss. Sure, some bosses care
deeply about building a connection with each direct report, but
most are too busy managing their own
jobs and their own bosses to care nearly as much as you do
about forging a healthy and productive
personal bond. Do not expect your boss to jump in and “own”
your relationship. You must jump first.
And why not? You most likely have more to gain than lose.

2. Get Behind the Mask
You can only influence your boss when you understand your
boss. What motivates them? What
are their priorities, objectives, goals, and ambitions? What are
their points of contention? And,
most importantly, what are their expectations of you? So, how
do you find out about your boss?
Often, it can be as simple as asking them directly, but careful
and dedicated observation also
helps. To whom does your boss talk most often? To whom do
they listen? What do they read?
What makes them laugh? What drives them nuts? Each one of
these details will open your eyes to
your boss's values and concerns, showing you the path to a
relationship that surpasses the
superficial.
3. Commit to the Success of Your Boss
This law is easy if you really like your boss. In such cases, of
course, you'll do everything you can
to assure their admiration and assent. But, even if you do not
like your boss, you have to discipline
yourself to respect the position that they hold. That’s
professionalism. That’s doing the right thing.
Keep your boss continually informed. Meet your obligations.
Make sure you are dependable.
Nothing is more likely to enhance your relationship with your
boss than seeing that their goals
were achieved because of you.

Lecture Notes
University.
4. Speak Truth to Power … Carefully
The most successful supervisors understand that people at high
organizational levels are
sometimes cut off from what people really think about them and
the company. The best leaders
do want to hear the bad news along with the good. They know
that leaders cannot deliver their
best performance if the people who work for them will not relay
the information they need to
make good decisions. You can confront your boss with
unpleasant news by, first, ensuring the
information you want to convey is accurate. Next, make it clear
that you are not seeking a gripe
session or a confrontation, but rather trying to raise important
questions or share information you
think your boss should have. Lastly, know when and how to

begin the conversation.
5. Act Like a Grownup
There will be times in your career when you have done all you
can and tried everything you can
think of to build a solid relationship with your boss to no avail.
It may seem to you that the boss
does not care about anything but their own success, that you are
regarded as merely a factor of
production or some kind of inanimate object. You may conclude
that your boss has no interest in
your personal growth and professional development. However
accurate your perceptions, you
cannot feel sorry for yourself. You cannot play the victim.
Confront your problem with a healthy
and productive mindset, and find an equally healthy and
productive solution. And do not quit
abruptly, leaving your team in the lurch. If you are tempted to
quit, remember that you can often
learn more from a bad boss than from a good one.
We do not want to leave you with the impression that most
bosses bring you down. Indeed, many bosses
are good or even great, and, surely, most strive to be. But the
quality of your boss's management is
something you have little control over. You can only control the
quality of your relationship. Own that
responsibility, and you’re managing up.
Your Leadership Journey

• If you are new to leadership, learn about why lateral
leadership works
• If you are a team leader, consider how to solidify your boss-
subordinate relationship
• If you are a senior/veteran leader, think about how to ask the
right questions of your managers to help
them build the skills they need to appropriately manage up to
you

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