Comments on: Two-Faced CIOs: Dr. Jekyll, Meet Mr. Hyde http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/relationships/two-faced-cios-dr-jekyll-meet-mr-hyde The Premier Blog For Learning How To Become A Successful CIO Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Links for December 6 2009 | Eric D. Brown http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/relationships/two-faced-cios-dr-jekyll-meet-mr-hyde/comment-page-1#comment-862 Links for December 6 2009 | Eric D. Brown Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:16:39 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/?p=1117#comment-862 [...] Two-Faced CIOs: Dr. Jekyll, Meet Mr. Hyde (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to creat... by Dr Jim Anderson on The Accidental Successful CIO [...] [...] Two-Faced CIOs: Dr. Jekyll, Meet Mr. Hyde (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to creat… by Dr Jim Anderson on The Accidental Successful CIO [...]

]]> By: Ben Lucier http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/relationships/two-faced-cios-dr-jekyll-meet-mr-hyde/comment-page-1#comment-861 Ben Lucier Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:49:25 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/?p=1117#comment-861 Definitely Jim. :) That was my only disagreement and I was a bit worried that you were telling your readers that it's OK to have an 'evil' side as a CIO. One of the best ways to avoid that side by the way is too seek out a decent executive coach to help keep the personalities at bay. :) Many large and some mid-sized corps have already used the services of such a service and it goes a long way to help get the CIO up to speed on the nuances of a politically charged environment where he may be judged by metrics he's not even aware of. Definitely Jim. :) That was my only disagreement and I was a bit worried that you were telling your readers that it’s OK to have an ‘evil’ side as a CIO. One of the best ways to avoid that side by the way is too seek out a decent executive coach to help keep the personalities at bay. :)

Many large and some mid-sized corps have already used the services of such a service and it goes a long way to help get the CIO up to speed on the nuances of a politically charged environment where he may be judged by metrics he’s not even aware of.

]]> By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/relationships/two-faced-cios-dr-jekyll-meet-mr-hyde/comment-page-1#comment-860 Dr. Jim Anderson Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:34:19 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/?p=1117#comment-860 Ben: ok, so if you can get beyond the "good vs. evil" part of the analogy, can I at least get you to agree that in order to be successful a CIO needs to live in two separate worlds at the same time? Hopefully we can both agree that there is no "shedding" going on here (that would actually be easier!) Instead, a CIO must retain his / her technical roots while creating a new business-side personality. My message here is that all too often, CIOs are not doing this. Now, I guess that it is possible that a CIO could have an "evil" side also, but that would just complicate things...! Ben: ok, so if you can get beyond the “good vs. evil” part of the analogy, can I at least get you to agree that in order to be successful a CIO needs to live in two separate worlds at the same time? Hopefully we can both agree that there is no “shedding” going on here (that would actually be easier!) Instead, a CIO must retain his / her technical roots while creating a new business-side personality. My message here is that all too often, CIOs are not doing this. Now, I guess that it is possible that a CIO could have an “evil” side also, but that would just complicate things…!

]]> By: Ben Lucier http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/relationships/two-faced-cios-dr-jekyll-meet-mr-hyde/comment-page-1#comment-859 Ben Lucier Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:09:32 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalsuccessfulcio.com/?p=1117#comment-859 I don't disagree with everything in this post, but it mostly misses the mark as it relates the dual personality of good vs evil to Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for a newly minted CIO. A CIO has a responsibility to multiple groups, not unlike most other senior management roles. That doesn't mean a successful CIO needs to "shed" friendships and past associations, it means she must recognize the different audiences and address them appropriately. In the case of the CIO role, the incumbent almost always rises up the technical ranks and in my opinion often has greater challenges as their senior management peers as they enter a more politically charged environment. That being said, it doesn't mean there are two personalities at play, and it certainly doesn't mean that one personality is good while the other is evil. I don’t disagree with everything in this post, but it mostly misses the mark as it relates the dual personality of good vs evil to Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for a newly minted CIO.

A CIO has a responsibility to multiple groups, not unlike most other senior management roles. That doesn’t mean a successful CIO needs to “shed” friendships and past associations, it means she must recognize the different audiences and address them appropriately.

In the case of the CIO role, the incumbent almost always rises up the technical ranks and in my opinion often has greater challenges as their senior management peers as they enter a more politically charged environment.

That being said, it doesn’t mean there are two personalities at play, and it certainly doesn’t mean that one personality is good while the other is evil.

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