The First 90 Days
What the best new CEOs do before they touch the strategy — a field guide to the highest-leverage three months in any executive's tenure.
Features · August 2026 Issue
Satya Nadella, Microsoft
How a soft-spoken engineer took a company written off as a legacy giant and turned it into one of the most valuable businesses on earth — by changing the culture before the strategy.
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