Keep your CIO in the loop

Jui,
I fully agree with your analysis of keeping the CIO in the loop. However, also keep in mind... if the CIO is "in the clowds" or always uses your ideas and out for himself, then keep in mind an asset is an asset, when released it could be a liability.
Be a team player, but remember only one person is looking out for yourself !
The boy scout motto is "Be prepared" ....Keep your amo dry..

Mike McKenna
mckenna4751@aol.com
201-394-1199

This advice is all well and good, but in "Real Life" especially as a member of a PMO where we are used as scapegoats for blame, you are faced with either keeping to this advice and finding yourself being constantly used as a "Patsy" for blame, or you put the record straight (with evidence) which invariably incriminates the true people at fault and who "ironically" are usually the people who started the Blame/Complain cycle in the first place. Question: has any of the people who write these gems of advice ever worked in the Corporate World where the culture is "Guilty until proven innocent".....hmmm

Wow. These comments are kind of astonishing. I would guess they come from IT teams in which leadership is wanting. I would hope that a leader would cultivate good teamwork, which includes (a) keeping everyone abreast of developments, so they can act with "global" knowledge, (b) sharing credit, and (c)driving towards improvement, not blame.

Keeping leaders in the dark puts everyone in a bad position.

Steve Lipka
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