How NOT to lead geeks

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The main reason IT people are unhappy at work is bad relations with management, often because geeks and managers have fundamentally different personalities, professional backgrounds and ambitions. Some people conclude that geeks hate managers and are impossible to lead. The expression “managing geeks is like herding cats” is sometimes used, but that’s just plain wrong. The fact is that IT people hate bad management and have even less tolerance for it than most other kinds of employees.

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	Daniel	How NOT to Lead Geeks	Not rated yet.	December 27, 2006
The top 10 mistakes managers make when leading geeks.
	Thomas	How NOT to lead geeks	Not rated yet.	July 27, 2006
The main reason IT people are unhappy at work is bad relations with management, often because geeks and managers have fundamentally different personalities, professional backgrounds and ambitions. Some people conclude that geek...
	ryan	Positive Sharing » How NOT to lead geeks	Not rated yet.	June 1, 2006
I think I agree with most of this. Its funny how easy it is to get this stuff wrong, too.
	~C4Chaos	Positive Sharing » How NOT to lead geeks	Rated 5 stars out of 5.	May 29, 2006
When the geeks at NCR in Australia threatened to go on strike, it was a move that could have paralyzed ATMs, supermarket cash registers and airplane check-in. This underlines the fact that IT has become so central to almost all co...
	Thomas	Positive Sharing :: How NOT to lead geeks	Not rated yet.	May 28, 2006
Looking at the negative, this post on how not to manage/lead geeks/developers/designers is spot on.