Inexperience, old habits and fear can lead to unnecessary risk taking by the CIO. Avoid this trap by following these simple rules for safe and effective IT leadership.
IT leadership is never easy, but some people make it harder than it has to be. This point was brought home to me after I witnessed a recent car accident. As if driving isn't dangerous enough, a young man used speed to navigate a turn and ended up hitting another car. Clearly in the wrong, he became belligerent and tried to blame the other driver. Unfortunately for him, the other driver was a firefighter with close ties to the local police. Once the police arrived at the scene, they conducted a field sobriety test and arrested the young man for driving under the influence.
Clearly, the decision to drink and drive led the young man to a series of bad choices. IT leadership has its own versions of DUI that can result in near misses, accidents and fatalities. These events are often dissected in the trade press and discussed at conferences by CIOs who, even as they say, "How could they be so stupid?" are also thinking, "There but for the grace of God go I."
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