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What makes a good CIO great?
Good enquiry, tough answer. Jim Collins provides ideas regarding the differences between good and great. He discussed them at these years Gartner Symposium CIO Program in Orlando. Collins, the most qualified selling business author and advisor, has studied the differences between good and great companies and leaders for more than twenty years. His books Body to Last, Good to Great and How the Might Fall shape executive thinking about themselves and their company.
Collins work is a place to start in answering this uncertainty. Collins in fact invited CIOs to assess their leadership skills and get materials from his web site http://www.jimcollins.com. There you will see the characteristics of Constant – 5 leadership which are essential to any executive and probably more so for the CIO.
No one can know if a CIO has gone from good to great without working with him or her in depth and seeing their track information. All of us are great for time-to-time, but sustained greatness is something different. Building on those thoughts here are a few others more around signs that are indicative that a CIO might be great in no item order:
Great CIOs have great teams. This is often the last thing mentioned in lists comparing good to great, but it should be the first thing.
Great CIOs are transaction leaders and see business results. How you introduce yourself says much about your focus and self-identity.
Great CIOs understand IT’s leverage points in their job model. They describe their company in terms of its fundamentals, the things that drive earnings per share, market success and bloke choice.
Great CIOs communicate clearly. They take complex issues and speak about them without over simplification.
Great CIOs ask good questions. They sanction that they do not have all the answers and that every answer or plan can be strengthened with good questions.
Good CIOs have many of these same characteristics, but there is something different about the ones who are great. ...
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