Xerfas's Journal: The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks

I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: "Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and business-challenged, victim-prone, bullheaded and credit-whoring. To overcome these intractable behavioral deficits you must do X, Y and Z."
Story:http://www.cio.com/article/501697/The_Unspoken_Truth_About_Managing_Geeks

Without even reading the fine article,

[Jimmy_Slimmy]

I will now magically predict something about your nature and nurture... which is that you have at least some geek genes or have lived in a geek environment.

Regards,

Smart, creative, not overly social, can be right when others are close-minded, geek-analyzing,

James