Steven Sinofsky Quotes

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Management always has a big influence on your success, no matter how good or how bad the business is itself.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

Management must manage!

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

Good organization does not necessarily mean it will produce good policy. But bad organization will almost never produce good policy.

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it.