10 Things CIOs Wish They Knew From The Start
CIO, March 22nd, 2023
Go slower. Network. Tell stories. Get training. Be kind. CIOs have plenty of advice they'd give to their younger selves if they could.
'Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards,' wrote Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. That's true, but what if by some stroke of magic we could go back in time and give a pep talk to our younger selves. What would we say? To provide some indirect counsel for first-time CIOs, we asked IT leaders to have a quiet word with their younger selves when they first took on a senior IT leadership role.