Many colleagues of mine have expressed frustration that domain expertise is under-rewarded. Knowing IT and the organization should get one a double knowledge bo

Many colleagues of mine have expressed frustration that domain expertise is under-rewarded. Knowing IT and the organization should get one a double knowledge bonus, but most agree it doesn't in practice; they are still perceived as a replaceable cog. Part of it is that IT people don't know how to sell their successes. Companies are use to blowhards showing off their alleged grand deeds such that if somebody doesn't, nobody notices. It's why Magic Johnson got a statue long before Kareem, despite being the very top scorer ever (until LeBron). Note that Magic is not a "blowhard", but has more charisma.