What job title best fits your role at your company?

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    What is your overall attitude toward performance incentives (rewards
    other than salary, bonuses and stock options)?

Source: Network World You survey, July 2001

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     Which performance incentives motivate you most?
     Which don't motivate you at all?

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     What is one thing you'd like to accomplish in your career before you retire?
     You said:

• "Bring up or bring down a major corporation."
• "Open my own company."
• "Publish a white paper on a technology I have deployed."
• "Earn my CCIE certification."
• "Become a recognized expert in my field."
• "Achieve a six-figure income."
• "Learn as much as possible - money [and] titles don't really matter."
• "Develop recognition of 'senior' status similar to those in other professions."
• "Become CIO of a successful company that believes people have personal lives and encourages them to better themselves via education, group picnics, etc. "
• "Just once, have a technical project implemented on its technical merits rather than slaughtered by the accountants."
• "Become the CTO of a mid- to large-sized technology company."
• "Substantially change a company's direction for the better; be the key player."
• "Become well rounded in all aspects and environments of data networking (large enterprise, service provider and small enterprise)."
• "Implement my operating and management philosophies and see them generate a well-run and very profitable entity."
• "Perfect the balance between work and personal life."
• "Climb to the top of the corporate ladder."
• "Create programs (digital, audiovisual and activities) that improve productivity."
• "Design and build an enterprise-class, 10,000-plus node network."
• "Become a columnist for a technical journal."
• "Earn 'name recognition.' "
• "Put in a system that works and is truly appreciated by all involved."
• "Take a company through an IPO."

Source: Network World You survey, July 2001

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    How often do you workout?

Source: Network World You survey, July 2001

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     Where do you usually workout?

Source: Network World You survey, July 2001

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     Have you ever experienced any of the following conflicts between work and
     personal time?

Source: Network World You survey, July 2001

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