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When Personal Tragedy Strikes, Downshifting at Work Doesn’t Always Help

Harvard Business Review

Vandebroek, now the chief technology officer at Xerox, was a 34-year-old rising executive in 1996 when her husband, also a tech executive, died during a family camp out in the Adirondacks, leaving Vandebroek with three children, ages 8, 5, and 3. I delegated, I simplified everything, and I leveraged IT.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. That''s a lot of money for digging through old e-mail.

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