265- The Long Game: Steve Cicco on Sustaining Passion in Technology Careers

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Steve Cicco Steve Cicco is a passionate IT leader with over 20 years of experience driving technology strategy and execution. His dedication to understanding business objectives and commitment to learning new skills have enabled him to sustain engagement across diverse roles and responsibilities over his lengthy tenure in the industry. An avid lifelong learner and puzzle-solver, Steve finds fulfillment in leveraging his extensive tool belt of knowledge to streamline processes and make jobs easier for colleagues through technology innovation and automation. The Long Game: Steve Cicco on Sustaining Passion in Technology Careers In this engaging conversation with IT Director at Transitions Optical Steve Cicco, we explore the evolution of his technology career and keys to sustaining passion over the long run. Steve offers insightful perspective, drawing from over 20 years of experience across manufacturing, sales, marketing and business intelligence roles. He discusses pragmatic approaches like maintaining a learning mindset, understanding business objectives, and building systems for supportability. Steve also provides thoughtful forecasts on trends like automation and conveys the expanding role of IT professionals as business partners. Tune in for practical, forward-thinking insights from Steve’s diverse IT journey so far.

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0:00.0	Everyone out there listening, you're listening to Dissecting Popular IT Nerds.
0:10.5	One of your hosts, Phil Howard, original started.
0:13.4	This podcast actually started.
0:14.8	It's funny.
0:15.8	And we've got Steve Chico on the line.
0:19.1	And if you screw with him, he becomes Steve Psycho. Not really. What we're
0:25.4	talking about is the number of LinkedIn invites that we get hounded with on a daily basis.
0:30.9	I do believe that people should at least try a little bit harder on their invite. Like people, I get 99% of the time people
0:41.1	really like my invite because it's like, hey, I knew you wanted to connect with another bearded
0:46.2	technology dude. So here I am. And people tend to like that one. But when I get like, hey, by the way,
0:56.4	I don't know what it is. You just get like a whole long paragraph of people, paragraph in your
1:01.5	inbox. I'm like, you do realize human beings don't speak like that. No, and I frequently question
1:07.5	their grasp on the buzzwords that come within the invite. So, you know,
1:12.8	you try and parse through and weed out the good ones. Yours was, was a good one or actually
1:18.3	who I heard from from your podcast. So, so happy to be here, happy to be talking to you.
1:23.4	Yeah, my boy, Darren. Yeah, so it is a struggle that we have because there's a lot of pay-to-play models out there.
1:31.4	Gartner Magic Quadrant, no, nothing.
1:33.4	But we do need to use them for some things.
1:36.4	And so, yeah, that's one of the struggles that we have, trying to find good IT directors to be on the show.
1:41.0	It's because they're like, what's the catch?
1:43.1	Like, there's no catch. We just want to talk about
1:45.7	how you crawled out of the server closet and we don't have to slide pizzas under the door
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