{"id":7801,"date":"2011-03-10T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2011-03-10T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T08:00:05","slug":"geekherding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7801","title":{"rendered":"Geekherding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randsinrepose.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/17\/managing_nerds.html\">rands in repose: Managing Nerds<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another default opening position for the nerd is bitterness \u2014 the curmudgeon. Your triage: <em>Why can\u2019t he be a team player<\/em>? There are chronically negative nerds out there, but in my experience with nerd management, it\u2019s more often the case the nerd is bitter because they\u2019ve seen this situation before four times and it\u2019s played out exactly the same way. Each time:<\/p>\n<p><em>Whenever management feels they\u2019re out of touch, we all get shuttled off to an offsite where we spend two days talking too much and not acting enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nerds aren\u2019t typically bitter; they\u2019re just well informed. Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I\u2019m wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rands in repose: Managing Nerds Another default opening position for the nerd is bitterness \u2014 the curmudgeon. Your triage: Why can\u2019t he be a team player? There are chronically negative nerds out there, but in my experience with nerd management, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-not-really-science-at-all","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}