Top 33 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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