Steven Sinofsky Quotes

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

When like-minded people deliberate as an organized group, the general opinion shifts towards extreme versions of their common beliefs.

Nine times out of ten your two smartest policy advisors disagree.

Terrorist groups always want to believe that they represent a general aggrieved group far larger than they really do.

… when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an Assembly can a perfect production be expected?

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

I'm going to make the best decision for me, and I believe teams are going to do the same thing.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.

If you bring in actors right when you're breaking story, it has a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' effect.

When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.

There were personality clashes in Free, really. I think it's as simple as that; I think we felt we weren't leaving each other enough room to develop in our own way, and we were restricting each other. So we said, let's go different ways.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.