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title: "Satya Nadella Brings Nonviolent Communication to Microsoft - Center for Nonviolent Communication"
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url: "https://www.cnvc.org/news/satya-nadella-of-microsoft"
date: "2026-09-19T13:31:36+00:00"
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#   Satya Nadella Brings Nonviolent Communication to Microsoft

09-Dec-2022

**DID YOU KNOW:** "One of Nadella’s \[Satya Nadella of Microsoft\] first acts after becoming CEO, in February 2014, was to ask the company’s top executives to read Marshall Rosenberg’s **Nonviolent Communication**, a treatise on empathic collaboration.

The gesture signaled that Nadella planned to run the company differently from his well-known predecessors, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and address Microsoft’s long-standing reputation as a hive of intense corporate infighting." \[[FAST COMPANY](https://www.fastcompany.com/40457458/satya-nadella-rewrites-microsofts-code "Article on FAST COMPANY magazine")\]

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