Reflections of a former CIO: Leadership lessons learned

Lessons learned through leadership.

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Chapter 12 Reflections and Lessons Learned Coordinating

Lessons learned from women in leadership positions

BACKGROUND Eileen Elias has decades of experience in leadership positions within government and nongovernmental organizations. As the first female Commissioner for Mental Health in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the US in the early 1990s, Elias gained experience on navigating gender-based challenges to attain recognized performance outcomes. OBJECTIVE From lessons learned from women le...

The Changing Role of the CIO in the World of Outsourcing: Lessons Learned from a CIO Roundtable

CIO Leadership Characteristics and Styles

Although studies targeting CIO’s leadership characteristics are numerous, studies examining CIOs’ leadership styles are scarce. Today’s CIOs are often members of the firm’s C-level executive team with a wide range of leadership capabilities and characteristics that are not much different from those of the CEOs. What, then, are the characteristics and leadership styles for those CIOs? This liter...