January 24, 2006 3:00 PM

Techies gone bad
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 3:00 PM

Question: How can IT folks go bad? Answer: When they turn boss:

. . .[A] classic example of a specific type of bad boss: the overgrown technologist who gets rewarded for brilliant technical work by being promoted to a position for which he's not qualified. Nearly anyone who has worked in IT is familiar with this all-too-common scenario of a technologically brilliant boss with no management skills. Unfortunately, this is just one of many bad manager scenarios in IT.

Read the entire piece from Computerworld.com, including survival strategies from those who made it through to tell about it.