新品种它工作者

I know these new skills can be intimidating to a ‘techie’. The above mentioned skill sets do not limit itself to IT personnel but need to be expanded in other Knowledge Industries like product engineering, R/D etc. Most of us are uncomfortable to collaborate, communicate, influence and negotiate and hence we choose safer ‘engineering’ jobs. ‘We can just do our jobs and go home… Who wants to get involved in company politics…’ that’s the conventional wisdom in the ‘techie’ world. Guess what… we are now in the middle of corporate universe and we need to be like ‘them’.

I believe, now is the exciting time for knowledge workers. We can influence the Business Strategy and be relevant to the core of the organization. What other job function would be that exciting? It’s a self fulfilling prophecy when we send out wrong messages to the younger generation to stay away from these fields. America will surely loose competitive edge with this kind of attitude.