How to Manage Geeks

Man I love Fast Company magazine. Business with a twist of all sorts. This one caught my eye because I wanted to know what this article said about managing people like me. Now yes I am a geek...fortunately for me, I am one of the upper eschelon of COOL geeks. Yes, I have a life and I do things other than type on the computer, play video games and read bo...hmmm....we'll leave that for right now. Read the full article here
If you're nerdy and you know it clap your hands! *crickets chirp*
...........Now I know I'm not the only one needin to clap here!

Anyway, check out what the businessworld has to say about it :

There's a saying in Silicon Valley: "The geeks shall inherit
the earth."

That's a sign, if you needed one, that we have permanently
entered a new economy. Once a term of derision, the label "geek" has become a
badge of honor, a mark of distinction. Anyone in any business in any industry
with any hope of thriving knows that he or she is utterly dependent on geeks --
those technical wizards who create great software and the powerful hardware that
runs it. The geeks know it too -- a fact that is reflected in the rich salaries
and hefty stock options that they now command.But how do you manage these geek
gods? Perhaps no one knows better than Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell Inc. Schmidt,
44, is a card-carrying geek himself: His resume boasts a computer-science PhD
and a stint at Sun Microsystems, where he was the chief technology officer and a
key developer of the Java software language. And, as if his technical skills
weren't enough to prove the point, Schmidt even looks the part, with his
boy-genius face, his wire-rim spectacles, and his coder's pallid
complexion.