10 Ways IT Employees are Different from Everyone Else - 'Geeks “at the keyboard” know more about the technology than their managers do.' (
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What it means: Glen calls this the knowledge inversion and points to the fact that it is counter to the usual management hierarchy in business, where a superior typically knows more about specialized subjects than her subordinates. Because technology changes so quickly, though, it just isn't true for geeks and their bosses. A CIO will always know less about the intricacies of the technologies than the folks in the trenches, even if he or she was once one of them, Glen says.
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