CIO Risk-Taking 101: Playing It Safe Isn't Safe
CIO, Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
The risks executive teams espouse have little to do with the dangers CIOs deal with every day. Still, trying to avoid those dangers can be even more hazardous to a CIO's career health.
As CIO, you're in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you're paying attention to it or not. And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it's worth remembering that their authors don't face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it.