Author: Steven Sinofsky

Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

- 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

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

- 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

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

- 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

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