Words matter. These are the best Steven Sinofsky Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.
Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.
It’s not cool to have your name in print when it’s not the truth.
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.
When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.
No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.
Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.
With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to ‘automate’ our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
I’ve always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.