Want a promotion? Your performance counts but your behavior counts more

The young computer engineer stood before the whiteboard confidently solving complex coding problems one after another. Thinking he had the Microsoft job well in hand, Satya Nadella turned back to his final interviewer, Richard Tait, who asked him a most unexpected question: Imagine you see a baby lying in the street crying. What do you do? Nadella thought for a few seconds and then said he’d call 911. As Tait (then a Microsoft manager, later an entrepreneur and venture capitalist) ended the i...