Satya Nadella is the CEO Microsoft needs

It has taken Microsoft's board of directors 165 days to choose a replacement for Ballmer. 165 days to realize that the best option was inside the house. Satya Nadella, a long-time Microsoft employee with more than 20 years at the company, has been chosen as the new CEO over all the possible candidates whose names have come up during this weather.

Nadella probably wasn't the first choice on the board. It is enough to take a look at the process to think that the search committee was not clear on it. It wouldn't have taken so many days or spread so many rumors about different candidates if Nadella's name had been at the top from the start.But despite that, the board may have ended up picking the right person for the job

The chosen one was at home

Satya Nadella knows Microsoft When we talk about a giant with more than 100,000 employees, this is a fundamental value. Any external candidate who took the position would come with the tagline of manager, bring his own team and try to impose his methods with the objective set on profits and economic performance. Such claims even fueled rumors about the future of some of the company's divisions.

"Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation. - Satya Nadella"

But it seems that Nadella escapes that profile. With a technical education and more than enough experience in the inner workings of Microsoft and many of its products and services, Nadella seems like the right man to lead the future of a company immersed in an industry of rapid change and fierce competition such as technology.

Many analysts are now saying that Nadella was the easy pick, that the board hasn't risked as much as it should. But the truth is that it seems anything but comfortable and safe to choose a man with no CEO experience for the job. Not only that, Nadella scores big points if one looks at the alternatives being considered during the process or takes a look at the market for available CEOs. The already CEO was the best possible choice and has just what Microsoft needs

The Change Needed

Check out the CEOs of today's most vibrant tech companies: Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc. Most of them, if not all, come from technical careers, have an entrepreneurial profile and seem to share the same passion for how technology can change the lives of users. Nadella's letter to his employees is about just that.

Another coincidence is age. A good part of the CEOs of all these companies do not exceed 50 years of age (Tim Cook is the oldest at 53). Our colleagues at Genbeta already appreciated the need for a generational change at Microsoft at the time Ballmer announced his retirement. Nadella, at 46 years old, integrates better into this group of new leaders than other names that did not stop ringing at the time, such as Alan Mullaly (68 years old).

Nadella evokes that trend and generational change that Microsoft seemed to be demanding He also does it with a casual profile (the sweatshirt of one of his photos is not accidental) and less surly than the one in which his predecessor sometimes fell. And she does it by going back to the company's roots by bringing Bill Gates back to the cause. It's not a bad cover letter.

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