In big companies a winning strategy I found is to avoid communicating with managers and get things done and then show them what you did and let them do their be

In big companies a winning strategy I found is to avoid communicating with managers and get things done and then show them what you did and let them do their best to manage it to death. Communicate with other technical people you trust as you develop your solution but don't give managers an opportunity to say yes or no as much as possible. In these emails it looks like managers/execs are trying to figure out how they could/can beat apple. My answer: get out of the way of the highly talented people you've hired. The business aspect is only possible with a technical solution people like (not zune!). MS has many products like that that feel like a committee of managers designed them and really smart engineers did their best to overcome those decisions (until the last few years at least). Making the guy who wrote sysinternals (got shit done despite MS) as head of Azure is one if their best decisions. Not that Azure is the best but it is definetly very usable and very popular with enterprise customers.