“If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you’re going to get there one way or another…so […]
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LM: A great example of where proper alignment with business processes and metrics would have changed this CIO’s answer….
“I don’t know” isn’t usually the answer most CEOs are expecting, particularly when their question is focused on the probability of success for a new enterprise-wide initiative that will require significant investment and probably mean big change for the organization. And yet that’s what one CIO recently offered up to his boss for a project proposal that he himself pitched to his executive. It sounds like a career-limiting move but given the somewhat risky nature of the project it was likely the most open and honest response he could have given; and one that required more than an ounce of courage.
