I bag on LinkedIn a lot. Deservedly so. I mostly read it as comic relief, but occasionally something good pops up. For instance:
Your perspective may be different, but this is about my perspective…
How It Should Be: Rewording this post a little bit, true IT/data/digital fluency should be a requirement for the next generation of leaders in most companies.
How It Is: Often, even IT leadership doesn’t understand the technology they are leading.
The gateway to the C-level job used to be an MBA, but maybe it should be an engineering degree. Instead, we give the engineering leadership jobs to MBAs. I think it’s because they are abundant, and they speak the language of those making the decision.
It’s bass ackwards.