I really liked this quote from an interview with Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Strategy Officer and head of Microsoft Research, about the problem -- and overall direction -- of software and, specifically, the OS. Snipped from Knowledge@Emory : Many...

A reprint of my post over on ChannelMEC _________ A friend passed along a post from an internal DL that I really wanted to share, as many of the points mentioned here have come up in various MEC conversations, including our discussion with Steve Smith...

Reprinting a post from the newly launched ChannelMEC site. As part of the Management Excellence Community (MEC) Speaker Series, about 25 MEC members were able to spend some face time with Steven Smith , co-author of the book Egonomics , and share our...

I went ahead and kicked off the ChannelMEC blog this evening, and hope to add a dozen or so other content contributors by the end of the month. The purpose of the blog is to expand the conversation around the management experience here at Microsoft. I...

After my post last night about the Management Excellence Community ( MEC ) initiatives that I am planning to promote in FY09 (and while waiting for a Windows install reboot), I was reading a back issue of the Harvard Business Review and came across a...

Over the past couple months, I finally reached out to the Management Excellence crowd and decided to participate. Within weeks, I was snapped up as the new Evangelism Chair, helping to build out the ME experience here at Microsoft. There are three primary...

On Mondy, March 17th, the adCenter Community portal went live, and with it the adCenter API page. As the business owner of the API program here at Microsoft, I am very excited to have this community site finally completed so that we can better communicate...