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10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else - 'Geeks are more attached to the technology than they are to you.'

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 says that for the most part IT staffers attach more loyalty to techniques and technology than they ever do to coworkers, bosses or organizations. He believes that a lot of superiors would do well to understand this unique trait and to approach it unemotionally.



 
 
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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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