 | Delivering on our Mission To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential.
Delivering on this mission requires a clearly defined set of values and tenets. Our company values are not new, but have recently been articulated to reinforce our new mission.
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Great people with great valuesAchieving our mission requires great people who are bright, creative, and energetic, and who possess the following values: | • | Passion for customers, partners, and technology
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| • | Open and respectful with others and dedicated to making them better
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| • | Willingness to take on big challenges and see them through
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| • | Self critical, questioning and committed to personal excellence and self improvement
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| • | Accountable for commitments, results, and quality to customers, shareholders, partners and employees.
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Tenets that propel our missionThe tenets central to accomplishing our mission include: | • | Customer trust. This means earning customer trust through the quality of our products and our responsiveness and accountability to customers and partners.
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| • | Broad customer connection. This means connecting broadly with customers, understanding their needs and uses of technology, and providing support when they have questions or concerns.
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| • | Innovative, evolving, and responsible platform leadership. This means expanding platform innovation, benefits, and opportunities for customers and partners, openness in discussing our future directions, getting feedback, and working with others to ensure that their products and our platforms work well together.
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| • | Enabling people to do new things. This means broadening choices for customers by identifying new areas of business, incubating new products, integrating new customer scenarios into existing businesses, exploring acquisition of key talent and experience, and integrating more deeply with new and existing partners.
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| • | A global inclusive commitment. This means thinking and acting globally, employing a multicultural workforce that generates innovative decision-making for a diverse universe of customers and partners, innovating to lower the costs of technology, and showing leadership in supporting the communities in which we work and live.
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| • | Excellence. This means excellence in everything we do to deliver on our mission.
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At Microsoft, we're committed to our mission: improving the potential of our customers, and the world. | |