> Not sure they saw a connection there... In my experience, they try not to see the connection. If you try to show it, they'll listen for a bit and then ration

> Not sure they saw a connection there... In my experience, they try not to see the connection. If you try to show it, they'll listen for a bit and then rationalize. If you keep at it you'll begin to see irritation and even aggression. That a fair number of CTOs have a decent technical background doesn't seem to help much, somehow. I've had this confirmed personally when I got together with a coworker from almost 20 ago who had moved into management. He struggled to keep experienced people because they moved for more money, because they were paying below market value. If I suggest something like paying more, he considers it and then some weeks later I find he's still struggling to figure out a way to keep people, having changed nothing of consequence. It's my pet theory that (almost all) management wants programming/IT to be a commodity and are willing to pretend that it is, to their detriment. They demand that it be a commodity.