Steven Sinofsky
Steven Sinofsky
Steven Jay Sinofsky is a former President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 until his departure on November 13, 2012. He was responsible for the development and marketing of Windows, Internet Explorer as well as online services such as Outlook.com and SkyDrive. Sinofsky is currently a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he serves on boards of investments...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
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When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
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The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
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A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
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The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
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Data is great, but strategy is better
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Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.
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A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.