The CIO edge
Subtitle: 7 leadership skills you need to drive results
By: Graham Waller, George Hallenbeck, Karen Rubenstrunk
Contributors: Hallenbeck, George; Rubenstrunk, Karen
Series: Gartner
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781422166376
Subjects: Executive ability; Leadership; Chief information officers
Description: Sure, It leaders need technological savvy and business acumen to understand and contribute to their company's goals. But the best of them possess a far more potent ability: They forge superior working relationships companywide to collaboratively deliver business results.

Using interviews and stories from CIOs at FedEx, P & G, American University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Aflac, AXA, and many other companies, the authors illustrate each of these ideas in action. Within each chapter, they also provide a wealth of practical strategies for enhancing these crucial abilities.

When you have the CIO edge, you'll get more of the right work done through others. You'll foster winning relationships. You'll concentrate your efforts where they'll exert the most impact. You'll generate better results for your company. And you'll gain greater fulfillment inside and outside work. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Soft skills yield hard results; title: Commit to leadership first, everything else second; title: Lead differently than you think; title: Embrace your softer side; title: Forge right relationships, drive right results; title: Master communications : always and all ways; title: Inspire others; title: Build people not systems; title: The professional payoff : delivering business results; title: The personal payoff