It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.
From Steven Sinofsky
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.
People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
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