Essentially, this article is complaining that Nadella is playing politics. When you're dependent on mass complicity, boasting airy platitudes and leaving the plan publicly undefined (that is, saying a bunch of stuff that's impossible to disagree with) is the only way to succeed. You don't become CEO of Microsoft by being a political ignoramus. Nadella knew this would go public and is using it to project the image the…
Absolutely true. Nadella knows exactly what he's trying to say, but he has to fluff it up to avoid ambush.
But at his level, you're gonna get ambushed by someone no matter what you write.