10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else (
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Baseline’s first installment of a four-part series on how to get the most from your IT role players. 
Understanding the intrinsic nature of employees and their
motivations can make a big difference in effectively managing them.
According to Paul Glen, technology consultant and author of Managing Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology,
one of the biggest mistakes managers and executives make is failing to
grasp that IT workers are different than the typical employee. By
failing to adjust their management game plan, these leaders never get
the most out of their technical employees.
Baseline caught up with
Glen to gain his insight about how IT employees are cut from a
different cloth. The following slides explore what he perceives as the
top differences between IT geeks and other personnel, and how this
should affect management's thinking and behavior. Here’s Chapter One in
Baseline’s 4 part series “Getting the Best Out of Geeks.”
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Baseline’s first installment of a four-part series on how to get the most from your IT role players.
Understanding the intrinsic nature of employees and their
motivations can make a big difference in effectively managing them.
According to Paul Glen, technology consultant and author of Managing Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology,
one of the biggest mistakes managers and executives make is failing to
grasp that IT workers are different than the typical employee. By
failing to adjust their management game plan, these leaders never get
the most out of their technical employees.
Baseline caught up with
Glen to gain his insight about how IT employees are cut from a
different cloth. The following slides explore what he perceives as the
top differences between IT geeks and other personnel, and how this
should affect management's thinking and behavior. Here’s Chapter One in
Baseline’s 4 part series “Getting the Best Out of Geeks.”
IT Management 
