10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else - 'Power is useless on geeks.'

Baseline’s first installment of a four-part series on how to get the most from your IT role players.

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What it means: Glen believes that power is useless on geeks not because they're recalcitrant—and they usually are—but because creativity can't be overpowered. You can command a programmer to write great code as well as you can command a journalist to write Pulitzer Prize-winning work.

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

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