Be the Wizard, not the Geek
A couple of years ago, a well-known leader and pioneer in the salary survey industry called me and wanted to talk. Now that in and of itself is a little unusual, one of your vendors calling about something other than an unpaid bill. But what he wanted to talk about held my attention, especially as I had tried to invent something similar internally at my company, but couldn’t secure the IT resources due to “other priorities.” Remember the quotes, and if you saw me writing this, they would be BIG air quotes there. Anyway, we talked. And the more we talked…