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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone is a 2017 book by Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols, about Nadella's life, the change he orchestrated at the technology company, and how technology will shape the future of society.

Hit Refresh was announced in 2016, as a book on Nadella's personal journey, the change in Microsoft, and the change that technology is bringing. It is Nadella's first book, though he had written op-eds on technology for news outlets including Slate and Financial Times. Book profits will be donated to charity through Microsoft Philanthropies.

The book includes candid writing about Nadella's gaffe at the 2014 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, at which he said that women should not ask for salary increases but have faith that the system would reward them. Nadella apologized for that statement, which he writes "helped me confront an unconscious bias that I didn’t know I had"; since he has linked a portion of Microsoft executive compensation to diversity improvements. He also writes about internal disagreements within the company, about topics such as cooperation with Apple, Inc. to optimize Office 365 for the iPad Pro, pushback from the successful Server division against launching the cloud project that became Microsoft Azure, and about the painful 2015 shutdown of large portions of Microsoft Mobile, acquired from Nokia in 2014 over Nadella's objections.

Hit Refresh also writes about Nadella's personal story, growing up in India, and learning to program on the Sinclair ZX80 before coming to the United States as an electrical engineering student. His wife, Anu, was only able to join him in the US when he gave up his permanent residence for a temporary H-1B visa. He writes about the their son, Zain, who was born with cerebral palsy, and how it expanded his worldview and empathy.

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Fortune magazine listed Hit Refresh on its 2017 list of The Top 10 Books to Read This Fall. The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company long-listed it for their Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.


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