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Haunting the CEO Blog
Are you endangered?
November 16, 2010At the beginning of Bob Evans’ recent article on InformationWeek.com, The CIO Transformation, he states, “If you still believe in the old saw that ‘the CIO’s job is to align IT with the business,’ then you might be on the endangered-species list.” Yikes! If CIOs follow this advice, they will be on the endangered species [...]
CIO Leadership Skills You Need
October 28, 2010In the new book, The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results, the trio of authors reinforce much of the same sentiments about CIO leadership (really leadership in general) that I do in my book, Haunting the CEO. This is great news! We continue to head in the direction of CIOs becoming business leaders first [...]
Leaders are built, not bought
October 22, 2010First, the title of this particular blog comes from Susan Cramm. (See her related blog here http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/cramm/2010/08/where-are-tomorrows-it-leaders.html.) Leaders can be bought, I don’t disagree with that, and it does happen often. But I do agree with Susan that there’s a “spotty track record” when companies hire leadership talent from the outside. Primary causes for the spotty track [...]
The Lazy Leader
September 10, 2010In my book, Haunting the CEO, I explain that CIOs need to work themselves out of a job. One question I typically in response is, “Then what do I do?” It first helps to understand that the technical skills that likely got you to his point in your career will be the same skills that [...]
Winning As a Coach vs. Winning As a Player
September 8, 2010I only have one fond memory of the 1987 World Series. (The Cardinals lost, so having one is one more than I should allow myself.) As I was sitting on my couch crying and the Twins players were rushing the field, Twins manager Tom Kelly just sat on the bench in his dugout watching his [...]
Leading Up, With Your Clothes On
September 6, 2010Let’s see if we can hold two contradictory thoughts in our heads at one time. First, imagine a company where leading up is welcomed, where the “bosses” welcome constructive input from those below them, all with the intent of achieving greater organizational results. Don’t think about the individual and how they might feel, think about [...]
Everyone Leads
September 3, 2010I think everyone inside an organization should go through ongoing leadership development. We can all benefit from learning more about leadership, more about ourselves and more about how to make a difference for stakeholders. Leadership isn’t a position. It doesn’t require a certain title. It doesn’t even require direct reports. Leadership at its core is [...]
Tactical, Strategic & Innovative Alignment
September 1, 2010Leaders are responsible for getting the greatest return out of their resources – people, dollars, systems, assets, etc. So it goes to reason that CEOs and CIOs are responsible for getting the greatest returns out of their investments in systems and technology. This is the purpose of business-IT alignment. A good BITA model ensures that [...]
But I don’t wanna be a vendor manager!
August 30, 2010In his book, The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr informed us that in the early 1900s, manufacturing companies needed their own electrical power plants. Many of them also had a VP of Electricity. (Yep!) He went on to point out, quite obviously, that companies no longer need a VP of Electricity. Power eventually became a utility. [...]
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