Technical and Non-Technical People; There’s a Big Difference

This is a huge distinction in people's minds in business. Technical people are the engineers, the doers, and often the coffee-getters of our organizations unfortunately. Non-Technical people wind up being the leaders and managers. But why?


In a way in business, it's a very large penalty to be capable of doing the work. Yes, there's an entire body of "work" in management but there are some people out there that really don't do shit and don't know shit; they don't add value. These non-technical people somehow find a way to become the managers and leaders of our organizations. But why and how?


In my opinion, you either know how to do the work or you don't know and you wind up telling people what to do. Business is a crazy world that's centered in strange ideas of power.