I was called all the names before they were cool: nerd, weirdo, geek. Once Gates, Wozniak, Brin, Page, and Zuckerberg showed the world that smart oddballs could build empires, the terms, and those who wore them, became coveted in the software industry. The opening sentence of the introduction to Paul Glen’s book Leading Geeks (2003) sums up the love-hate thinking of non-geek leaders at the time...

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