Thursday, June 22, 2006
How Not to Lead Geeks
The Positive Sharing blog has a good read on how not to lead geeks from earlier this year. The ten points are:
- Downplay training
- Give no recognition
- Plan too much overtime
- Use management-speak
- Try to be smarter than the geeks
- Act inconsistent
- Ignore the geeks
- Make decisions without consulting them
- Don’t give them tools
- Forget that geeks are creative workers
You’d think most of those are obvious, but from my past jobs I can say they’re definitely not.
I want to add my own ten points of how not to lead geeks to the list:
- Think all geeks want to climb up the career ladder or can be rewarded with job titles
- Shield geeks from early design stages
- Put job formalities and processes over teams and communication
- Demand strict working hours
- Stop geeks from browsing the web to read up on new technologies
- Interrupt geeks with questions, phone calls, unclosed doors, and daily meetings
- Use technical buzzwords because you think geeks enjoy them
- Believe that every geek loves hardware, system administration, and solving Outlook problems of colleagues
- Have a strong, expressed believe that all geeks are the same
- Demand that geeks behave completely normal, non-neurotic
[Thanks Markus Renschler.]
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