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微软CEO萨蒂亚·纳德拉痛失爱子

微软CEO萨蒂亚·纳德拉痛失爱子

JANE THIER 2022-03-03
微软的工作不只是商业买卖,它还能让一个脆弱的少年得以维持生命。

微软(Microsoft)发言人向《华尔街日报》证实,微软董事长兼CEO萨蒂亚·纳德拉的儿子扎恩周一去世,年仅26岁。扎恩患有大脑性瘫痪。

2017年,纳德拉在领英(LinkedIn)上发布的一篇文章中称:“作为[扎恩的]父母,我们不应该去追问‘为什么’,而是应该尽我们所能改善他的生活。”他称赞妻子阿努是一位“了不起的女性、母亲和伴侣”,并称她的同理心感染了他。“从她身上,我学到无论是作为父亲还是CEO,如果我在一举一动中都抱有同理心,就能产生巨大的力量。”

扎恩面临的挑战让纳德拉意识到,为什么科技必须更具有包容性,更便于残疾人士使用。2014年担任微软CEO之后不久,纳德拉发布了一份全新的使命宣言,并表示“我将我个人和公司的使命定义为予力全球每一人、每一组织,成就不凡。”

他在LinkedIn中写道:“以父亲的身份,面对有特殊需求的儿子……让我产生了一种新的个人理念,希望将新的创意与对他人的同理心相关联,并对践行这个理念充满热情。因此我致力于携手微软的同事打破界限,将爱和同理心与人类的聪明才智和对产生影响的热情相结合,实现我们的使命。”

他还表示,具有包容性的团队践行包容性原则,将对设计服务所有人的产品产生最深刻的影响,并且他认为许多人在人生中的某些时刻可能需要使用辅助性科技。

他写道:“微软的无障碍事业对我本人有深刻的意义。家人的经历需要我不断刷新自己的情绪和观点,而在不断追求精神重生的过程中,我意识到,尽管我们确实取得了一些进展,但依旧有许多人需要我们做得更多,并且迫在眉睫。”

2021年5月,纳德拉家族向西雅图儿童医院(Seattle Children’s Hospital)捐款1,500万美元,用于发展神经科学医疗和精神健康护理。纳德拉和妻子阿努还设立了扎恩·纳德拉儿科神经科学客座教授。

西雅图儿童医院在去年宣布接受捐款时表示,扎恩出生后在该医院接受了救生护理,并且终生都没有停止治疗。

据GeekWire报道,该医院CEO杰夫·斯珀林博士致信微软CEO对扎恩的去世表示哀悼。他写道:“扎恩不拘一格的音乐品位、阳光灿烂的笑容和他给家人以及所有爱他的人带来的快乐,将被永远铭记。”

纳德拉在2017年的《刷新》(Hit Refresh)一书中回忆起他在2014年担任微软CEO不久之后,前往重症监护室探望扎恩的场景,他注意到儿子使用的医疗器械运行的都是Windows操作系统,并连接到云端。

他写道:“这让我意识到,微软的工作不只是商业买卖,它还能让一个脆弱的少年得以维持生命。在回到办公室之后,我更进一步认识到更新云和Windows 10系统这些决定的重要性。我记得当时我想道,一定要顺利完成升级。”

微软首席人力官凯瑟琳·霍根致信公司高管通报了扎恩去世的消息。她在信中写道,纳德拉一家正在私下哀悼扎恩的逝去。

她写道:“我知道诸位都希望支持萨蒂亚度过这个艰难的时期。目前最好的方式是将他和他的家人记在心里,为他们祈祷,并留给他们隐私,在平静中处理这种痛苦的损失。”(财富中文网)

翻译:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

微软(Microsoft)发言人向《华尔街日报》证实,微软董事长兼CEO萨蒂亚·纳德拉的儿子扎恩周一去世,年仅26岁。扎恩患有大脑性瘫痪。

2017年,纳德拉在领英(LinkedIn)上发布的一篇文章中称:“作为[扎恩的]父母,我们不应该去追问‘为什么’,而是应该尽我们所能改善他的生活。”他称赞妻子阿努是一位“了不起的女性、母亲和伴侣”,并称她的同理心感染了他。“从她身上,我学到无论是作为父亲还是CEO,如果我在一举一动中都抱有同理心,就能产生巨大的力量。”

扎恩面临的挑战让纳德拉意识到,为什么科技必须更具有包容性,更便于残疾人士使用。2014年担任微软CEO之后不久,纳德拉发布了一份全新的使命宣言,并表示“我将我个人和公司的使命定义为予力全球每一人、每一组织,成就不凡。”

他在LinkedIn中写道:“以父亲的身份,面对有特殊需求的儿子……让我产生了一种新的个人理念,希望将新的创意与对他人的同理心相关联,并对践行这个理念充满热情。因此我致力于携手微软的同事打破界限,将爱和同理心与人类的聪明才智和对产生影响的热情相结合,实现我们的使命。”

他还表示,具有包容性的团队践行包容性原则,将对设计服务所有人的产品产生最深刻的影响,并且他认为许多人在人生中的某些时刻可能需要使用辅助性科技。

他写道:“微软的无障碍事业对我本人有深刻的意义。家人的经历需要我不断刷新自己的情绪和观点,而在不断追求精神重生的过程中,我意识到,尽管我们确实取得了一些进展,但依旧有许多人需要我们做得更多,并且迫在眉睫。”

2021年5月,纳德拉家族向西雅图儿童医院(Seattle Children’s Hospital)捐款1,500万美元,用于发展神经科学医疗和精神健康护理。纳德拉和妻子阿努还设立了扎恩·纳德拉儿科神经科学客座教授。

西雅图儿童医院在去年宣布接受捐款时表示,扎恩出生后在该医院接受了救生护理,并且终生都没有停止治疗。

据GeekWire报道,该医院CEO杰夫·斯珀林博士致信微软CEO对扎恩的去世表示哀悼。他写道:“扎恩不拘一格的音乐品位、阳光灿烂的笑容和他给家人以及所有爱他的人带来的快乐,将被永远铭记。”

纳德拉在2017年的《刷新》(Hit Refresh)一书中回忆起他在2014年担任微软CEO不久之后,前往重症监护室探望扎恩的场景,他注意到儿子使用的医疗器械运行的都是Windows操作系统,并连接到云端。

他写道:“这让我意识到,微软的工作不只是商业买卖,它还能让一个脆弱的少年得以维持生命。在回到办公室之后,我更进一步认识到更新云和Windows 10系统这些决定的重要性。我记得当时我想道,一定要顺利完成升级。”

微软首席人力官凯瑟琳·霍根致信公司高管通报了扎恩去世的消息。她在信中写道,纳德拉一家正在私下哀悼扎恩的逝去。

她写道:“我知道诸位都希望支持萨蒂亚度过这个艰难的时期。目前最好的方式是将他和他的家人记在心里,为他们祈祷,并留给他们隐私,在平静中处理这种痛苦的损失。”(财富中文网)

翻译:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella’s son, Zain, died Monday at the age of 26, a company spokesperson confirmed to the Wall Street Journal. Zain had suffered from cerebral palsy.

“As [Zain’s] parents, it was up to us not to question ‘why,’ but instead to do everything we could to improve his life,” Nadella wrote in a LinkedIn post in 2017. He called his wife, Anu, an “amazing woman, mother, and partner,” whose empathy has inspired his own. “From her I have learned that when I infuse empathy into my everyday actions, it is powerful, whether they be in my role as a father or as a CEO.”

Zain’s challenges showed Nadella why technology must become more inclusive and accessible to users with disabilities. Shortly after becoming Microsoft’s CEO in 2014, Nadella unveiled a new mission statement for the company, saying, “I define my mission and that of my company as empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.”

“Becoming a father of a son with special needs…has shaped my personal passion for and philosophy of connecting new ideas to empathy for others,” Nadella wrote on LinkedIn. “And it is why I am deeply committed to pushing the bounds on what love and compassion combined with human ingenuity and passion to have impact can accomplish with my colleagues at Microsoft.”

He added that inclusive teams advancing inclusive principles will have the deepest impact in building products designed for everyone, and that many people, at some point in their lives, will come to rely on assistive tech.

“Our work in accessibility has an incredibly deep meaning to me personally,” he wrote. “Our family’s experience has required me to continually hit refresh on my emotions and on my outlook, and it is in this constant quest for renewal that I realize—despite the fact we are making progress—we still have much to do, quickly, for so many.”

In May 2021, the Nadella family donated $15 million to Seattle Children’s Hospital to advance its neurosciences medicine and mental health care. Nadella and his wife, Anu, also established the Zain Nadella Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurosciences.

When he was born, Zain received lifesaving care at Seattle Children’s, and ongoing treatment throughout his life, the hospital wrote in the donation announcement last year.

“Zain will be remembered for his eclectic taste in music, his bright sunny smile, and the immense joy he brought to his family and all those who loved him,” Dr. Jeff Sperring, the hospital’s CEO, wrote in a message to Microsoft’s C-suite commemorating Zain’s loss, according to GeekWire.

In a passage in his 2017 book, Hit Refresh, Nadella recalled visiting Zain in the ICU shortly after becoming Microsoft’s CEO in 2014, and noticing all of his son’s medical devices running Windows, connected to the cloud.

“It was a stark reminder that our work at Microsoft transcended business, that it made life itself possible for a fragile young boy,” he wrote. “It also brought a new level of gravity to the looming decisions back at the office on our cloud and Windows 10 upgrades. We’d better get this right, I recall thinking to myself.”

The Nadella family is taking time to privately grieve Zain’s loss, Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, wrote in a message to company executives sharing the news of Zain’s passing.

“I know we all want to support Satya during this difficult time,” she wrote. “The best way right now is to hold him and his family in your thoughts and prayers, while allowing them the privacy and peace to process such a grave loss.”

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