Wednesday, July 02, 2008

9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

This is mostly for Tim's benefit:

9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership: "8. The CIO collaborates to death.
Whether it is the character flaw of being indecisive or some middle-school notion of democracy, you are in charge. Collaboration is critical, but you also need to make the right decision at the right time. Collaborate like Captain Kirk. 'Spock?' 'Bones?' He gets opinions from his experts but there is never any question about who will make the final decision. And, if you never watched Star Trek then you shouldn't even be a CIO."