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10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else - 'Failure is normal to geeks.'
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What it means: In IT only about a quarter of projects are completed on time and as specified. Technologists in the business accept this as a fact of life, and people who manage them should as well A manager who walks in the door saying 'Failure is not an option' risks being branded a goat, because failure is always an option, Glen says. This type of manager also risks costing an organization oodles of money when the staff delays telling him or her a project is unfeasible for fear of the reaction.



 
 
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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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