Saba Hameed is an IT manager in a multi-national firm. Saba is a hard working girl from Lahore, her particular interest was computers so at university level she decided to city IT and come an IT expert. Now she is working in a managing position. This is rare for Pakistani girls, achieving excellence at a young age.
My question to Saba was, I like to whip out every so often and run through my mind: is IT a science or an art? Saba said, for that matter, are we all engineers or are we really artists? If you think about it, our jobs consist of taking basic elements (colors) combining them (painting) and creating networks, servers, and applications (works of art). Is one among us the next IT Michelangelo?
Just how do great IT managers go about making decisions? They all have different ways of doing this, but many of us talk about making “gut decisions.” What this is really a way of saying is that an IT leader who has good business instincts is a great value to the company that they work for.
If you want to become known as someone who can make good, quick decisions, then start trusting your gut; however, also make sure that you get as many inputs from others as possible. The time that it requires to get inputs from others can often take too long to collect. What’s an IT leader to do?
It turns out that you can probably trust your gut. This is because in your brain you have a class of neuron cells that are called “spindle cells”. This type of neurons both attaches to other cells easier and transmits information to them quicker.