How To Get Your Technical Skill Recognized

Fight the battle from the other side

Tim Baker

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A troubling trend among modern IT organizations is to value charisma over technical skill. Charisma and influence certainly have their place, and they can take a person quickly from the bottom ranks of programmers all the way to management, even without having to write a lot of code. You might not be the best programmer, but if you can influence people and be seen as a leader, the technical hurdles can be overlooked. On the other hand, if you noticeably lack charisma, your actual work may be…

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