American - Businessman | 1965 -
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
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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.
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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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People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
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While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.
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