In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself.
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Tech is all about building human connections.
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.
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