Author: Steven Sinofsky

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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.

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.

- Steven Sinofsky

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.

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.

- Steven Sinofsky

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.

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.

- Steven Sinofsky

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

- Steven Sinofsky

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

- Steven Sinofsky

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

- Steven Sinofsky

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

- Steven Sinofsky

I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.

I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.

- Steven Sinofsky

Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.

Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups.

- Steven Sinofsky

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