When Asha Sharma became CEO of Xbox earlier this year, it wasn’t the culmination of a carefully plotted path to the corner office at one of the world’s biggest gaming brands. If anything, it was a reaffirmation of a philosophy she’d followed for years: instead of dreaming of the future, focus on excelling at the job in front of you.
“I never obsessed on what I wanted to be when I grew up,” Sharma said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado, on Tuesday.
