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Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead the People Who Deliver Technology
by: Paul Glen, David H. Maister, Warren G. Bennis

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.57
EAN: 9780787961480
ISBN: 0787961485
Label: Jossey-Bass
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: November 01, 2002
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Sales Rank: 222895
Studio: Jossey-Bass

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Leading Geeks challenges the conventional wisdom that leadership methods are universal and gives executives and managers the understanding they need to manage and lead the technologists on whom they have become so dependent. This much-needed book— written in nontechnical language by Paul Glen, a highly acclaimed management consultant— gives clear directions on how to effectively lead these brilliant yet notoriously resistant-to-being-managed knowledge workers. Glen not only provides proven management strategies but also background on why traditional approaches often don't work with geeks. Leading Geeks describes the beliefs and behavior of geeks, their group dynamics, and the unique nature of technical work. It also offers a unique twelve-part model that explains how knowledge workers deliver value to an organization.

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- Great addition for your inbox.
This book was recommended to me by the deputy CIO of a major Boston hospital. I feel it is a must-read for non-geeks who are leading geeks. In contrast, I am a geek who leads geeks and I have found the "Content of Geek Leadership" model to be correct. I use it. While it was not a moment of epiphany when I read it, anything that tells you that you're on the right track is a good thing. Put it in your inbox.

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- Not recommended.
I really regret wasting my money on this book. I picked it up because I had heard some good things about it.

To be charitable, I believe that the book is intended for the new and non-technical manager who suddenly has an increased technology presence in his or her team or who has changed roles and now has reports in the IT or development departments. While the author does make some valuable points, they seem to me fairly standard to management in general. It is perhaps useful to separate out the IT folks for people who already perceive technology as a no-go domain. It was not terribly useful for me.

Much is made of points such as that a "Geek" might know more about their manager about technology issues. Again, what is different about that? Management is its own discipline and field. I think in every department, the coworkers will have specializations of which the manager only has superficial ... Read More

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- Great for helping non-technical managers understand technical teams
If you're an IT manager, you should definitely have (and read!) a copy of the excellent book "Leading Geeks" by Paul Glen. It talks a lot about "common traits" of folks who are drawn to technology work, and what they mean from a management point of view, including how to leverage those traits to your team's advantage, rather than fighting an uphill battle against them.

IT managers who read the book will probably find a lot of the material somewhat obvious. However, I still think it's worthwhile reading, for two reasons. First, it coherently organizes a lot of those "obvious" things and points out conclusions and implications that you might never have consciously considered. Second, it gives you a good set of explanations and examples to use to explain to other (non-technical, such as upper management) folks why what your team does is hard to predict/forecast/manage.

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- A New IT Workforce?
I thoroughly enjoyed Paul Glen's work and look forward to more like it in the future. Glen does a great job of identifying what today's IT geeks are like, giving its readers a window of opportunity to understand how to train, manage and lead those with similar characteristics. According to the U.S. Department of Labor and Statistics, the IT industry ranks as one of the fastest-growing areas of job growth in the United States workforce, projecting a growth rate between 40 to 60 percent by 2014. With these projections, it is difficult to ignore the preparation that must take place to prepare new geeks for the future. It becomes necessary to understand the current trends of professionals in the IT industry to ensure that IT geeks receive the continued training they need to remain marketable in a competitive workforce.

Glen describes employees in IT occupations as follows:

[They] are the knowledge ... Read More

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