Worst Leadership Advice You've Ever Received
CIO, Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
IT leaders share bad advice they were given early in their leadership careers - and what they ultimately learned from it.
At some point in your career, you've been given bad advice. It's usually well meaning. But maybe it is dated or exposes a problematic world view in the advice-giver that you'd be better off not emulating. Even bad advice can be a good teacher, though.
Teradyne CIO Shannon Gath told CIO in a Leadership Live interview that she learned an important lesson from a piece of bad advice she received early in her career. She was told she should, 'Act like a man' - once common advice given to women. The idea was that you should compartmentalize your personal life, hide photos of your kids, and show no emotion - the way men do.