I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.
As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
I haven't really had too many bosses. Any bad boss I had probably was because I was a bad employee.
Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.
And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.
People should not be paid to go to Washington and not do their job. When they don't show up, why should we pay them?