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
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
Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood. – 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. – Steven Sinofsky
No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets. – 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. – Steven Sinofsky
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari. – Steven Sinofsky
A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight. – Steven Sinofsky
Groups tend to believe their work is harder, more strategic, or just more valuable while underestimating those contributions from other groups. – Steven Sinofsky
Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology – from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold. – Steven Sinofsky
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. – Steven Sinofsky
From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key. – Steven Sinofsky
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. – Steven Sinofsky
Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency. – Steven Sinofsky
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. – 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. – Steven Sinofsky
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. – 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. – Steven Sinofsky
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives. – Steven Sinofsky
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. – Steven Sinofsky
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. – Steven Sinofsky
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. – Steven Sinofsky
At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance. – 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. – Steven Sinofsky
