Steven Sinofsky

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.

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

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

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

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.

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.

With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.

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.

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

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.

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.

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