The Geek 5 was introduced as this blog was launched in 2009.  The Geek 5 refers to five areas that can keep geeks (deeply technical people) from achieving career advancement and even success in a current role.   Geeks Gone Pro has been dedicated to helping geeks overcome these career risks and barriers in order to find success.  The Geek 5 include:

1. Resistance to a broader role
2. Organizational Savvy
3. Managing People
4. Leadership Skills
5. Business Acumen

I’ve been using this as a framework to give career and personal development advice to geeks.  After doing this for awhile, I realize that the Geek 5 needs some tweaking.  Over the next few weeks, I’ll introduce a new Geek competency.  To keep the Geek 5 to five instead of being the Geek 6, I’ll also combine two of the existing ones.

In addition, I’ve started thinking about this topic in broader terms.  Soon we might start reaching beyond the geek world to some other neglected populations.

More to come.  Stay tuned!