197. The most valuable skills for IT leaders: Insights from Barry Goldstrom

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Barry Goldstrom Barry Goldstrom is an experienced and esteemed IT professional with a broad career in various IT roles across the United States. With a career spanning over two decades, his vast experience in the Information Technology field offers deep insights into numerous aspects of IT management and implementation. Presently, Barry is the Information Technology Administrator at Küster North America. The most valuable skills for IT leaders: Insights from Barry Goldstrom In this episode, Barry Goldstrom, Chief Information Officer in Michigan, delivers practical advice for IT professionals, narrates his IT horror stories, underscores the importance of people skills an, and discusses strategies for balancing priorities. He also shares his unique experiences in Detroit’s evolution, performance-based pay, substantial telecom savings, his newfound hobby of woodworking, and his memorable days of data processing in the Navy.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:13.5	And today we have Barry Goldstrom on with us, Chief Information Officer.
0:20.8	And you are in Michigan where they don't manufacture any car parts.
0:25.9	No, none at all.
0:28.5	None at all.
0:29.6	There's no car parts here.
0:30.7	There's no snow.
0:32.2	They don't do snowmobiling or people, they don't, you know, drive some snowmobiles
0:37.1	around with guns and go hunting in
0:39.1	the Upper Peninsula or anything like that. Only in the UP. That's right. Only in UP. Here in the
0:43.9	metro Detroit area, you just have to watch the drive-bys. That's it.
0:48.0	Oh, kind of like where I'm at in Hartford, Connecticut, too.
0:51.7	Oh, okay. It's somewhat safe around here.
0:55.6	Oh, I live in one of the suburbs of the Detroit area.
1:00.4	It's a great area.
1:01.7	And Detroit is great.
1:02.8	Don't get me wrong.
1:03.7	It's, you know, has its ups and downs like any major city, but a very, very good city.
1:09.9	Yeah.
1:10.5	What was that?
1:11.0	There was some, like, like slapstick comedy back in the day where the, the punchline was,
1:18.1	send them to Detroit.
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