Five prompts to boost meetings and productivity
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has folded GPT-5 on Copilot into his daily routine, sharing five precise prompts he says supercharge meetings, projects, and personal productivity. His reveal lands amid rising executive anxiety about AI disruption—and a broader shift as tech leaders like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman bake AI into their own workflows. The takeaway: clear prompting, verification, and iterative refinement now sit at the core of competitive execution.
Points clés
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says GPT-5 on Copilot is part of his “everyday workflow” to run meetings, projects, and productivity.
- Microsoft’s market value is cited at $3.7 trillion.
- Nadella shared five Copilot prompts, including drafting project updates that compare KPIs vs. targets, capture wins/losses, risks, competitive moves, and likely tough Q&A.
- He uses a prompt to judge if a [Product] launch in November is on track by checking engineering progress, pilot program results, and risks—and asks Copilot to return a probability.
- Another prompt audits the past month’s calendar and email, clustering work into 5–7 project buckets with percentages of time spent and short descriptions.
- A prep prompt reviews a selected email and summarizes prior manager and team discussions to get ready for the next meeting in a series.
- Over three-fourths of U.S. CEOs fear losing their jobs due to AI disruption, according to a Harris Poll survey for Dataiku.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang uses Perplexity and ChatGPT daily as a tutor for learning and research, ramping from “explain like I’m 12” to doctorate-level detail.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman uses ChatGPT for email processing and document summaries—and says it even helped him learn parenting.
- Anthropic urges the “golden rule of clear prompting,” with expert Zack Witten advising verification of “think step by step” outputs; Maggie Vo says AI can teach you how to prompt better.
À retenir
Want a non-expert playbook? Copy Nadella’s homework (it’s allowed), wire Copilot to your calendar and email, and start with those five prompts. Ask for KPIs vs. targets, probabilities, and risks—and then actually check the model’s work like a responsible adult. Iterate when it misses, keep sensitive data out of harm’s way, and remember: the only bad prompt is the one you were too shy to try (well, that and “make my job disappear”).
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