What motivates you to get up in the morning and go to work? Are you an IT professional because you can't imagine doing anything else or are you just another corporate persona working your way through a career?
Personal satisfaction and well being aside, there is a qualitative difference in the work produced by a career employee and those who are in it for the love of technology. College graduates come to us today with all sorts of Information Technology/Computer Science degrees but without the ability to understand how hardware and software systems interact.
You can teach anyone how to read a balance sheet or a P&L statement, but you can't teach someone to think "geek." Failure to keep corporate IT geeky enough can be a real problem. If I had to choose between a CIO who understood the business or one who understood the technology I would always go for the technology. You can learn a business model. You can't learn tech.
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