#36 in History
Hit Refresh
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #4
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Our view
Satya Nadella’s “Hit Refresh” mixes memoir, leadership lessons and an optimistic look at the technology to come. Some readers value his thoughts on leadership and on artificial intelligence, quantum computing and mixed reality; others find it bland and too flattering to the company, though they rate the chapters on his upbringing in India. Co-written with two collaborators, it reads best as a leader’s reflections on where technology is heading.
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About the book
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone is a nonfiction book by Satya Nadella and co-authors Jill Tracie Nichols and Greg Shaw, with a foreword by Bill Gates, published in 2017. Nadella announced that the profits from the book would go to Microsoft Philanthropies and through that to nonprofit organizations.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 72 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the History average of 8.0. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.3 | 8 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 64 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is Hit Refresh?
It has 288 pages — shorter than 72% of the ranked books in History.
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Same shelf — History — with scores between 7.6 and 7.9, closest to this book.
