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10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else - 'Geeks are a self-selected group.'
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What it means: This process of self-selection distills a very unique type of person into these positions, Glen says. Understanding this first point can help managers grasp why there are so many other differences between IT staffers and typical employees in the corporate environment.



 
 
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  1. 10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else
  2. 'Geeks are a self-selected group.'
  3. 'The nature of geek work is different.'
  4. 'Power is useless on geeks.'
  5. 'Geeks are more attached to the technology than they are to you.'
  6. 'Geeks are judgmental.'
  7. 'Geeks are introverted.'
  8. 'Failure is normal to geeks.'
  9. 'Geeks “at the keyboard” know more about the technology than their managers do.'
  10. 'Geeks are goal-oriented, not task-oriented'
  11. 'IT creativity springs from environment, not incentives.'
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