Steering committees fail on a regular basis. The one’s I have been on have been boring at best. A group of CIOs got together and revealed why theirs succeeded. The hard work is in the focus.

It’s not what you don’t know or overlook that bites you as a leader. It’s what is right in front of you that you choose to ignore. Two changes will change everything

Billions of dollars are being invested in generative AI. People see its power. They also feel the responsibility that comes with it. CIOs know that they can’t hold it back and they can’t rush it forward. Mostly, they can’t have their company ignore it. Let the investments others are making be a credible witness to your argumentation.

Change efforts fail because the hard work is done in the wrong place, and because we avoid resistance as much as possible. To succeed at change, create and embrace friction as early as possible.

Effective technology leaders are driven by a certain obsession. Fail to be consumed by it, and the work you put out will be a box to check but hardly art you can’t wait to display.

The question of fairness in remote work continues to be raised. It’s a distraction from the real need and the right question. Ask this, and you change the nature of the discussion once and for all.