Chapter Two: CIO Challenges

"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes" of Jim Barton, the new CIO of the fictional IVK Corporation, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make the CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in the business. In this chapter, Jim thinks about his first concrete steps in his new role--how will he distinguish himself from his unsuccessful predecessor and disprove the naysayers' predictions that he won't last a year as CIO? What can he do to learn more about IT leadership? This chapter is excerpted from "The Adventures of an IT Leader."