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Welcome to the Crossroads



By Ellen Pearlman


  Table of Contents:
  1. Welcome to the Crossroads
  2. ' Page 1'
  3. ' Page 2'

The choice of whether to be strategic to your business or become a glorified plumber is easy. The path is not.

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: How Do You Stack Up?">

How Do You Stack Up?
Are you a New CIO Leader? Take this self-assessment test to find out.
1. I have a compelling vision for how we can use IT to enable the enterprise and move to the next level of performance.
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2. I can express my vision in a concise "pitch" that grabs the attention of others and excites them.
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3. I spend more and more of my time building and maintaining relationships with my executive colleagues.
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4. I have developed my emotional intelligence, particularly my social awareness and empathy, so that I can be a good leader.
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5. I know how to "lead from the back" when I don't have formal power and use my skills of persuasion to influence others.
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6. I have fine-tuned my leadership skills so that I am able to modify my style to fit the situation and the constituency I want to influence.
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Scoring Strongly disagree = 0 points, Disagree = 3 points, Agree = 6 points, Strongly agree = 10 points.

How you scored: 20 or less = Needs attention; 21–40 = Satisfactory performance; 41–60= Area of strength


Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business School Press. Excerpted from The New CIO Leader by Marianne Broadbent and Ellen Kitzis. Copyright © 2005 by Gartner, Inc.; All Rights Reserved.


 
 
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