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Fair warning: We’re about to compare geek gurus to professional athletes.
If that comparison bothers you, you probably don’t care too much about things like network security, data management and strategic decision making based on tech expertise. Feel free to move along.
Still here? Good. Because this is important stuff. Seriously, we would not dare to compare John, the senior security engineer, to Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest human, if there wasn’t a really good reason.
And the reason is this: John wakes up every day with one thing on his mind — making sure his company is playing a better data security game than everyone out there who might want to do it harm. He dreams about security. He trains for every potential catastrophe. And even though, like Bolt, John is the absolute best at what he does, he never ever stops working to get better.
Geek athletes may not always look like Greek athletes, but being really good at IT takes the same kind of dedication and fortitude. It’s not something you turn on at work and turn off on your way home.
The best IT pros don’t just understand the basic rules of the game. Rather, they understand the intricasies of the rules – and how to exploit that complexity for a competitive advantage.
The best IT pros don’t play to win. Rather, they work to crush their opponents — the logic being that nothing short of complete domination of the playing field will send a message to the next hacker that comes along that it’s pointless to even try.
The best IT pros don’t just work for a team. Rather, their lives, reputations and egos are invested squarely in being part of a team — a winning team at that.
The best IT pros don’t just train to win today’s game. They’re training to stay competitive for tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that, knowing that the future competition is only going to get stronger.
And sure, there may not be an Olympic medal in what we do. But that’s OK. Because just like the world’s greatest athletes, the best IT pros don’t define themselves with conventional notions of glory. They simply want to win — all the time and every time.