Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals the 5 AI prompts he uses that can ‘supercharge your everyday workflow’

Nadella’s secret prompts that “supercharge” his workflow

How other top CEOs are using AI

How to be the best AI prompter

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As AI guts the need for Gen Z’s entry-level jobs, workers are racing against time to stay ahead of the curve and not be next on the chopping block. 

But these fears aren’t just among mid-level management, they’re extending all the way to the C-suite: In fact, over three-fourths of all U.S. CEOs are afraid of losing their jobs, according to a survey conducted

Just as for young people, the advice consistently given to avoid automation has been to embrace AI, the same goes for bosses: For Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, this has meant bringing generative AI into his “everyday workflow.” The billionaire tech leader recently revealed he is an active user of GPT-5 on Copilot to generate meeting summaries, project updates, monitor productivity, and more. And he’s even shared the exact prompts he uses for productivity.

In a LinkedIn post, Nadella said AI’s recent developments have added a “new layer of intelligence” across all his apps. 

Here are the five prompts he said can “supercharge your everyday workflow”:

Fortune reached out to Nadella for comment.

AI has become part of the daily routine of many top business executives, especially in the world of tech. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said he’s an active user of both Perplexity and ChatGPT, using it primarily as a learning and research tool.

“I use [AI] as a tutor every day,” Huang said at the Milken Institute Global Conference earlier this year. “In areas that are fairly new to me, I might say, ‘Start

And while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman remains someone that leans on pen and paper at times, he remains an active user of his own generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to help with tasks like processing emails and summarizing documents. It’s also been a gamechanger for him learning how to be a father.

“Clearly, people have been able to take care of babies without ChatGPT for a long time,” Altman said on the OpenAI podcast. “I don’t know how I would have done that.”

While the exact wording of prompts have become less important in recent months thanks to the more advanced intelligence of LLMs, there still remain many best practices that can yield better results than others. According to Anthropic, the company behind Claude, it all starts with being an effective communicator through what it calls the “golden rule of clear prompting.”

“Show your prompt to a colleague, ideally someone who has minimal context on the task, and ask them to follow the instructions,” Anthropic’s website says. “If they’re confused, Claude will likely be too.”

But just like a conversation with a human, interacting with AI will require adaptation. If it doesn’t generate what you want the first time, clarify what you were looking for or be more specific. And, if there happens to be an error—which can still happen—don’t be afraid to point it out.

“One thing that people will do is they’ll put ‘think step

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“AI can literally teach you how to communicate with it better,” Maggie Vo, head of user education at Anthropic, previously told Fortune. “It’s surprisingly effective and saves you from memorizing prompt templates.”

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