Steven Sinofsky

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

— Steven Sinofsky

When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business…

— Steven Sinofsky

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context…

— Steven Sinofsky

Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than…

— Steven Sinofsky

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he…

— Steven Sinofsky

I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every…

— Steven Sinofsky

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and…

— 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…

— Steven Sinofsky

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

— Steven Sinofsky

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern…

— Steven Sinofsky

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do…

— Steven Sinofsky

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we…

— 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…

— Steven Sinofsky

BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC…

— Steven Sinofsky

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

— Steven Sinofsky

Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.

— Steven Sinofsky

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

— Steven Sinofsky

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

— 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

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

— Steven Sinofsky

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

— Steven Sinofsky

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work.…

— Steven Sinofsky

Data is great, but strategy is better

— Steven Sinofsky

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek…

— Steven Sinofsky

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to…

— Steven Sinofsky