Steven Sinofsky
Steven Sinofsky
Steven Jay Sinofsky is a former President of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 until his departure on November 13, 2012. He was responsible for the development and marketing of Windows, Internet Explorer as well as online services such as Outlook.com and SkyDrive. Sinofsky is currently a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he serves on boards of investments...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
choosing disruptive moment product technology whether
From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.
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Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
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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.
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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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Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.
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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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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.
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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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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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A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.
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Nothing called the "Gang Of Four" ends well.
smartphones clouds tools
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.
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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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If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.