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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Psychology
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck's foundational work on 'fixed' versus 'growth' mindsets — the belief that abilities can be developed through effort. Nadella turned its core idea into Microsoft's cultural operating system: shift from 'know-it-alls' to 'learn-it-alls.'
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Satya Nadella
“In there there's this very simple concept that Carol Dweck talks about, which is if you take two people, one of them is a learn-it-all and the other one is a know-it-all, the learn-it-all will always trump the know-it-all in the long run, even if they start with less innate capability.”
Nadella has repeatedly credited Dweck's book — given to him by his wife Anu — as the intellectual seed of Microsoft's cultural turnaround. He made the 'learn-it-all vs. know-it-all' framing the company's internal rallying cry.
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Tobi Lütke
Lütke discusses Dweck's growth-versus-fixed-mindset distinction with Tim Ferriss as a shared vocabulary used at Shopify.