CIOs quit for legitimate reasons. They should also never quit in three specific seasons. Knowing when to quit and when to not is the art of leadership.

The CIO as a visionary leader can learn a lot from the marketing team. Understanding a person or group’s level of awareness, and how much and what information to impart is critical to communicating vision.

Effective CIOs need to come alongside each business line to explore the best path forward. Thinking through six questions will better prepare the CIO for the conversations and work ahead.

The CIO must transform from recent hero to effective leader. To so do, shape six crucial environments: collaboration, customer experience, remote work, change management, security sensitivity and executive posture.

You chose to invest yourself in what matters; people just found out how much you matter.

The CIO and board of directors must implement a new dashboard that indicates secure risk management, business alignment and incident responses are in place and functional.