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Steven Sinofsky
American
Businessman
Born:
1965
Build
Business
Technology
Time
Work
You
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The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.
Steven Sinofsky
Time
Needs
Business
Culture
First
Half
Revolution
Marked
Defined
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Modern
Capabilities
Century
Created
Organizations
Derived
Large-Scale
Start
When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.
Steven Sinofsky
Success
Work
You
Job
Frame
Member
Delegate
Objectives
Clearly
Your
Team
Describe
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
Steven Sinofsky
Work
Best
Creative
Problem
Big
Everyone
Solution
Folks
Best Work
Escapes
Team
I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.
Steven Sinofsky
Work
Day
Great
Every Day
Build
Before
Every
See
More
Feel
Stuff
Come
Always
Get
Night
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.
Steven Sinofsky
Opportunities
Build
Range
Seek
More
New
Leave
Years
New Opportunities
Than
Microsoft
Experiences
After
Decided
Working
Products
Company
Wide
Wide Range
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.
Steven Sinofsky
Good
You
Management
Practice
Down
Enough
Fail
Reminds
Like
Cliche
Because
Forget
Often
Much
Boils
Things
Need
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
Steven Sinofsky
Myself
Police
Listening
Busy
Atari
Heads
Talking
Talking Heads
Were
Friends
While
Teaching
Program
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.
Steven Sinofsky
Buy
Family
Business
Entrepreneur
Father
First
Looking
Our
Computer
Computing
He
Head
Bought
Family Business
Dove
Hardly
No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.
Steven Sinofsky
You
Matter
Isolation
Look
Budgets
How
Person
Cannot
Paid
At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.
Steven Sinofsky
People
Goals
Will
Group
Distribution
Some
Similar
Point
Performance
Towards
Exhibit
Working
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.
Steven Sinofsky
Art
Best
You
Technology
Business
Build
Assumptions
State
About
Potential
Make
Practices
Lot
Customer
Product
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.
Steven Sinofsky
Path
Assuming
Assumption
Resource
High
Cost
Someone
Makes
Often
Different
Specific
Disruption
Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.
Steven Sinofsky
Despite
Blackberry
Web
Generalized
Support
Demand
Offering
Avoided
BlackBerry required tethering for some routine operations, and for many, the only way to integrate corporate mail was to keep a PC running all the time.
Steven Sinofsky
Time
Corporate
Way
Running
Some
Blackberry
Only
Mail
Operations
Integrate
Required
Many
Keep
Routine
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.
Steven Sinofsky
Work
World
Changes
Tools
Tablet
More
Implied
Along
Around
How
Mobile
Transforming
Social
Us
Productivity
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
Steven Sinofsky
Knowledge
Business
Culture
First
Gathering
Analysis
New
Information
Capabilities
Then
Created
Derived
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
Steven Sinofsky
Challenges
Management
Every
Frame
Resources
Define
States
About
Allocate
Between
End
Effort
Them
Navigate
Level
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