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How Senior Executives Stay Passionate About Their Work

Harvard Business Review

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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The Dangerous Tension Between CMOs and CIOs

Harvard Business Review

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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Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

Harvard Business Review

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. focus and vision.

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