Steven Sinofsky

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

“The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.”

“Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.”

“Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.”

“At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.”

“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.”

“Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.”