You need to get out of the office more

I’ve just arrived at Interop. Getting to Vegas from Asheville, N.C., isn’t exactly straightforward, and I’m taking a big hunk of time away from the office to be here. So why do I do it? To avoid the trap of virtuous navel gazing.

When you get caught up in the massive responsibilities of your job, it’s easy to think that you need to spend all of your time on site, to think that your entire benefit to the organization consists of what you do while you’re interacting with the people you work with. That’s because when you’re responsible for IT at an organization, all the problems eventually roll up to your inbox in a funnel-like effect: infrastructure, applications, customer service, personnel.

Jonathan Feldman for InformationWeek

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