Influence

The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly.

This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.

The important thing is that CIOs as the top leadership role must have a strong mindset, a unique personality, and a clear idea of what needs to be done, yet creative enough to not hold the company back from growth. Regardless of which personality they have, digital CIOs need to be both transformational and situational, innovative and tactical, business savvy and technology insightful, communication-effective and operation-efficient.

         Chief Influence Officer

Influencelogic Today we are inextricably linked, in real time and in ways far more imminent than most realize. Business leaders and professionals need to become more influential and progressive, develop critical thinking skills, use common sense, and train rational thinking skills, to drive, anticipate desired changes proactively.

Influencing Today we are inextricably linked, in real time and in ways far more imminent than most realize. "IN"fluence is about touching both mind and heart via inspiration and insight. Highly influential leaders or professionals need to genuinely look within their own hearts and minds, inspire, innovate, improve, interact, interpret, exemplify, encourage, learn about the barriers, and be able to overcome them to make a leap.

CIO as Chief Influence Officer: Seven Points of Key Influences The CIO role by nature is fraught with paradox, the modern CIO needs to be both business strategist and IT manager, innovator and cost-cutter, visionary and situation-driven. Chief influence officer is one of the most pertinent personas for CIO in the 21st century since technology is ubiquitous in the information age. However, the traditional big box hardware style of IT infrastructure is disappearing, and more invisible digitized IT backbone based on Cloud computing is emerging, modern CIO is no longer just the chief infrastructure officer to manage back office of functional IT, this strategic role is more based on the influence made across the organizational boundary, from innovation to sustainability, from talent management to cultural transformation.

Is Leadership all about Influencing Often people think that leadership is the result of specific traits of a person, others feel it’s all about tough-mindedness—the ability to gain control through force of will. The thing about a leader is that you can have a positive or a negative impact on the circumstances. How you act as a leader will influence the behavior of your team, your organization or even beyond. But is leadership only about influence?

Influence Nowadays we step into the digital economy with exponential growth of information and abundant knowledge; the world has been interwoven through the internet and the latest technologies, leadership becomes more interdisciplinary, influential and innovative.

Modern organizations have their own sophistication with silo functions, the sea of information, and the pool of talent. The CIO is an inherently cross-functional role, to bridge the business and IT; the data and insight, the business’s today and tomorrow. The digital CIOs have to wear different personas and master multiple leadership and management roles effortlessly. They need to lead at the strategic level for conducting a complex digital orchestra; they should be handy managers to plumbing information and keep it flowing smoothly; they also have to be like the diligent gardeners, to build a unique IT landscape via tuning technology, removing waste, nurturing culture, and empowering people.

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