Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar

No – it is not more difficult or more risky compared to what past CIOs had to do . Every time I see articles and tweets that seem to indicate otherwise , I cringe . Dealing with business problems has always been on CIO agenda – it is not something that came up yesterday .Continue reading “Are CIO jobs more difficult today ?”

Everyone likes their leaders to take fast decisions and then stick by the decision in the face of diversity . They like leaders to be proactive and everyone else to be reactionary. Guess what – that is also how three year olds generally work ! But you don’t want your leaders to behave like aContinue reading “The execution challenge – are you a leader or a 3 year old ?”

This is by far the most common feedback I have gotten as a manager in my career – more or less in those exact words. And I admit that I have used those exact words with my managers in my early days. It is a challenge for both employees and managers to move past thisContinue reading “But ..but…I didn’t get any credit for all the stuff I did”