5 Tips for Being Successful at Microsoft

re: 5 Tips for Being Succesful at Microsoft

Ramesh Venk — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:12:58 GMT

This is a very well written piece. Especially the part about different managers. I guess you should change the title to "5 tips for being successful" !!

Thanks

re: 5 Tips for Being Succesful at Microsoft

Mark Bower — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:36:40 GMT

In my time here, i have found your tip #3 easily the most important piece of information to learn early.

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Jerome — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:13:30 GMT

This is a great post! I am sending this around to everyone I know in MS land. :-)

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InesK — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:18:31 GMT

Awesome list, thanks for the tips! It is definitely helpful to newbies at MS like myself :)

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Peter Stathakos — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:22:56 GMT

Excellent list Josh. This basically applies to anyone working in a technical environment.

I still have some trouble with #2 but I'm always working on it. It never hurts to keep your manager in the loop.

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Bruce Lee — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 04:51:59 GMT

These are very nice tips and experences. Thanks for the sharing.

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Blair Stilwell — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 07:29:25 GMT

Bringing chocolates to my office regularly was without a doubt a key to my success. All of these points are really great for any organization.

Jobs tips

Alex Barnett blog — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:06:44 GMT

Josh Ledgard provides 5 tips for being successful at Microsoft.

"1. Remember to ingore your email"...

re: 5 Tips for Being Succesful at Microsoft

gaidar — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:52:22 GMT

Knowing lots of guys from Microsoft I can suggest you to rename the topic from "5 Tips for Being Succesful at Microsoft" to "5 Tips for Being Good Enought for Work at Microsoft" :)

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Bill Higgins — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:17:30 GMT

Although I don't work at Microsoft (I work at IBM), I really enjoyed Julie Bick's book "All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft". Several items from the list above look familiar.

The link to this book at Amazon is below:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671009141/

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Matthijs — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 23:27:48 GMT

Nice list, I never thought about it to be honest! (I just started working) Ill definitely try them out :), thanks!

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Fernik — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:22:27 GMT

Josh, thanks for sharing your experience. I alwars read your entries about development and community. It is good to see someone who thinks in win/win situations and not in win/lose situations like most of the industry. You are a proactive man that is creating a good set of practices that will drive a process of change in Microsoft. Sucesss!!

Fernik

re: 5 Tips for Being Succesful at Microsoft

jledgard — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:37:07 GMT

Everyone: Thanks for all the kudos. That is one thing that should have been on the list... if you like something another team does... tell them. :-)

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SR009 — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 21:04:02 GMT

5 Tips for Being Succesful at Microsoft

Perhaps change Tip #1: Use spellchecking often - and spell "Successful" correctly?

(from a former "Successful" Microsoft Business Solutions employee....)

Keep at it Josh..! <g>

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"1. Remember to ingore your email"...

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re: 5 Tips for Being Successful at Microsoft

Rohit — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:31:21 GMT

Great post, as an intern at Microsoft I found a lot of this advice really valuable.

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Jason Haley — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 03:09:22 GMT

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mike's web log — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:25:35 GMT

Josh Ledgard posts 5 Tips for Being Successful at Microsoft, but I don't know that they're unique to MS. They seem like sound career tips for most places (to the extent that one can implement them in one's corporate culture). Tip 1: Remember to ignore ...

re: 5 Tips for Being Successful at Microsoft

saraford — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:53:29 GMT

Yeah, you definitely gotta keep those managers in line. =)

(Josh was my manager at one point, for those of you who don't get the inside joke)

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Darryl Burling @ Work — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:48:34 GMT

Frank forwarded this article that Josh Ledgard blogged which is a great bunch of tips from his five (now...

re: 5 Tips for Being Successful at Microsoft

dglover — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:54:36 GMT

Great posting Josh!!

Have been at MS for 12 years, 50:50 manager:individual and 90% of that time I’ve been lucky enough to adored what I do. Lol, but yeah made my mistakes along the way too, painful at times but taught me a lot...

1) eMail culture in general well abused - cc:ing etc... - I liken the use of email to Pavlo's dog! But also think it's also a symptom of the challenges of our review system, considerable individual empowerment (by enlarge a very cool thing) and working with a ton of talented folk.

2) Agree that understanding others goals/objectives is hugely important to everyone's success - Would also add understanding their relative importance is critical. Objectives can seem well aligned till you realise it's a really a very low priority objective for someone and you've built a dependency on it.

3) Less is More: If I could add one more to your list then this would be it (with a hint of irony). By heck we don’t half make the simple complex and we forever add but rarely take away. Prioritize, do fewer things better and KISS.

Btw, ta for CSS help:-)

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Mun — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:41:53 GMT

I don't work at MS (yet hehe), but interesting post! :-)

Re: Number 4 - it would be interesting to hear about some of the cool things within Microsoft that came about with a developer in a team knocking up something they needed... :-)

re: 5 Tips for Being Successful at Microsoft

jledgard — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:44:26 GMT

Mun: There are lots of these stories. I see Start.Com as one such example of people just starting to build what they needed.

Dglover: No problem for the CSS help. I need to update that old article for the new CS stuff, I just haven't gotten around to it yet... mostly becuase I'm still not thrilled with the look I have yet.

Yeah, i kept thinking of more things and people have suggested some good ones. Maybe I'll add one more each year. :-)

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Hardik — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:15:08 GMT

hmmm
intresting stuff

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vera — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:38:18 GMT

I am impressed by your post. It is very realistic and does not just relate to Microsft but to all spheres of life, whether u r in business for yourself or working for someone else, we'd all do well to remeber these tips.
Well done.

re: 5 Tips for Being Successful at Microsoft

Bob H — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:03:31 GMT

Very useful advice there.

I worked in building #40 in 2000 on a vendor program. Reading that you were in building #41 makes it feel like a small campus :)

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