Things That Affect Your Company's Technical I.Q.
Note that the items affecting your company's technical I.Q.
involve the "people side" of technology application.
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| Reporting problems inaccurately, without solutions |
Accurately reporting problems with proposed solutions |
| Looking for someone to blame for problems, making people afraid to report problems or critical situations |
Encouraging people to confront problems, requesting solutions for problems and critical situations |
| Blindly riding your own "hobby horse", to the exclusion of other actions expected or requested of you |
Knowing your company, department and group or team objectives and how they relate to your own job |
| Pretending more knowledge than you really have |
Knowing both your technical strengths and weaknesses |
| Blindly insisting on maintaining the status quo |
Working out ways to improve things that need improving |
| Technical one-upsmanship or "I'm better than you" rivalry |
Working as part of a team with a objectives |
| Criticizing requests for help or assistance |
Helping someone to find the information they need |
| Finding fault with a competitor's ideas or products |
Learning from a competitor's ideas or products |
| Blaming employees for not knowing something |
Implementing on the job training and apprenticeships |
| Avoiding or neglecting seminars and conferences |
Supporting the many forms of continuing education |
| Not fairly distributing the assignment of duties, "hot" projects and educational opportunities among staff |
Actively caring about the job development of each person in your company, department or group |
| Ignoring the need for adequate reference materials |
Maintaining an updated technical library |
| Capriciously setting fixed deadlines in an arbitrary or dictatorial manner |
Setting deadlines after in-depth consultation with the persons responsible for meeting them |
| Criticizing personal, group or departmental initiative |
Rewarding self-management and initiative |
| Rejecting all suggestions, criticizing all proposed change |
Encouraging suggestions and proposals for changes |
| Keeping company, department or group staff in the dark |
Publishing company, department and group objectives |
| Letting your level of technical expertise stagnate |
Advancing your own technical knowledge and skills |
| Giving up at the first failure or barrier |
Carrying on to accomplish what you set out to accomplish |
