Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Tom made a major career decision 3 months ago: he decided to leave his position as chief information officer at a large manufacturing firm to become an entrepreneur and start a company to provide software that helps manufacturers improve the quality of their manufacturing process. The Science of Effective Decision Making.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 16, 2015

If you want to know why so many goal setters don’t become goal achievers, you can pore over a bunch of enlightening academic studies about goals or you can watch these ads for 15 minutes. Don, our CEO, has been hearing some serious grumbling about Bill, our Chief Information Officer,” she groaned.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. We often think we’re starting far ahead of where we objectively are and that we’ve arrived when we’re still hundreds of miles from our goal. If your goal is to be great at early-stage pharma R&D, it’s the same process. Build your map.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). “They cared about how I was developing and growing in my career but also as a manager, leader, and communicator.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

That is very bad news for their businesses and, not incidentally, for their own careers. But why is it that two leaders focused on the same ultimate goal cannot make better progress in working together? When IT and marketing departments work at cross-purposes, the results are inefficiencies and mishaps and it is customers who suffer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

One consultant described the search for a chief information officer in these terms: “Whereas technical expertise was previously paramount, these competencies [being sought today] are more about leadership skills than technical ones.” Career planning Managing yourself' Why Good Managers Are So Rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Research focused on the careers of 14 highly successful CIOs found that, beyond the skills needed by all C-level executives (an extensive network, emotional intelligence, leadership, etc.), CIOs especially need: an integrative mind.

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